Milan Kundera Quotes

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.

It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scary and hard but pays off in the long run... Let yourself fail... And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?

Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

I just want to do something challenging.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

I am still where I started. I am still struggling. In fact, the struggle has only got bigger. I always try to go beyond my means, and this where the struggle comes in.

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

The key to my motivation has always been to look at how far I had still to go rather than how far I had come.

I want to be the best. I have my goals, my dreams.

There's so much to do in life, and hopefully I will do it all.

I want to give myself new challenges. I want to get better.

I'm ambitious in a good way. I've never wanted to settle as long as I've thought there's more.

There's a part of me that's ambitious.

I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that musn't be daredIs this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful, soberly astonished. Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? Noand yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfactionfulfilled a destiny. To struggle and to understand - never this last without the other; such is the law.

Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens.

How to discover your greatness? By upgrading our relationships and by having goals beyond our comfort zone.

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.