Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

I suppose I was always very greedy. I was never happy with what we had, and I was always looking for new opportunities.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

By the time you get what you always wanted, you want something else.

I can never rest. I need to always do more. I always want to do more. I'm never going to be satisfied. That's it: Never be satisfied.

The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

Ambition is priceless, its something that's in your veins.

We are never content with our lot.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.

I'm never satisfied. I always want to achieve more.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

I'm the kind of person who always wants more.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.