A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.
But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.
The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.
You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.
Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
