To want something desperately, to be tested, to feel that life will be impossible if the object of one’s desires is not achieved, is always dangerous for the soul. Some people attempt to climb Everest...

He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and thrive. Not everyone needed the same driving ambition that had fueled him. That had led him...

I’m either going to be a writer or a bum.

I was never somebody who grew up going, ‘I really want to be a singer in a band,’ and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

My ambition is not to leave behind me a pile of money for my heirs to quarrel about, but to find out what there is of interest in this world before I cross the border...

Reaction timeTouch the underside of a penny you find on the streetDoesn’t feel any different unless you close your eyesI can taste the copper in my mouth nowseeping from between my teethThere’s an explanation I’m...

I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.

If it’s IN you to climb you must — there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills — they can’t breathe properly in the valleys.

FAILURE DENOTES:F – FallA – AriseI – Intuitive thinkingL – Learning processU – Undeterred soulR – Renew thoughtsE – Experiments new thinking.

Go realize your dreams.

Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.Who had nothing, who wanted everything.

After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle’s lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of...

Ambition is what gives birth to imagination and then imagination directs the bearing towards its pursuit.

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.

I don’t particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if your ambitions included being an absolute ruler tomorrow. There were subtleties. Oh, you could order men...