716 quotes found
“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”
“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prov...”
“Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.”
“He had heard the voice of London that lives and breathes beneath the rumble of traffic, a voice like the continual high-pitched shriek you hear when you put your head beneath the waves of the sea. ...”
“The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.”
“Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.”
“Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.”
“Surround Yourself with People Who Believe in Your Dreams:Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.”
“Surround Yourself with Positive People Who Believe in Your DreamsDistance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people...”
“Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.”
“Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?”
“People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'" (2009)]”
“I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office su...”
“Live for each second without hesitation”
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
“Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.”
“Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.Who had nothing, who wanted everything.”
“I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.”
“Never give up. It's like breathingonce you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of bre...”
“Your future, hopes and dreams should never be tied down to anybody! The strength lies inside of you to decide at any moment your direction.”
