The idea that you have to pursue greatness... it's up to you; it's your life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal.
The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.
I've always had very high aims for my life and for my career, for anything that I do.
My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
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