Quotes about Ambition and Failure

THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable. As with all the very best books in our field, it's not the fantasy trappings (wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love, and loss. Votes: 3

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. Votes: 1

I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving. Votes: 1

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity. Votes: 1

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. Votes: 0

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. Votes: 0

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition. Votes: 0

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Votes: 0

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot. Votes: 0