#ambition

All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, For they dream their dreams with open eyes, And make them come true. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#dreams #dreams

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#choke #dreams #education #intelligence #lethargy

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#chances #change #constancy #contentment #giving-up

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#human-nature #life #love #truth #change

Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#change #crazy #think #world #change

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 to being possibly the richest man in London without a title in his lineage -- all earned in under a decade. That had given him the power to change lives. But a person needed to have the drive to change his own life. ↗

— Anne Mallory

#drive #respect #survival #change

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#ennui #life #life

I've put out a lot of little roots these two years," Anne told the moon, "and when I'm pulled up they're going to hurt a great deal. But it's best to go, I think, and, as Marilla says, there's no good reason why I shouldn't. I must get out all my ambitions and dust them. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#change #change

No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better. ↗

— POB Bismark

#perseverance #startups #struggle #change

Knowing the path through the forest doesn't make the trip any less daunting. Knowing the steps to your dreams doesn't make the climb any less of a challenge. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#ambition #challenges #dreams #goals #journey