Thomas Merton Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Ambition, Way

  Thomas Merton, Lawrence Cunningham (1996). “A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life”, Harper San Francisco

• When ambition ends, happiness begins.

  Thomas Merton

  Ambition, Ambitious, Ends

• Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

  Thomas Merton

  Happiness, Ambition, Mindfulness

  Thomas Merton, Lawrence Cunningham (1996). “A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life”, Harper San Francisco

• October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

  Thomas Merton

  Ambition, August, Blood

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• But there is no substance under the things I have gathered together about me. I am hollow, and my structure of pleasures and ambitions has no foundation. I am objectified in them. But they are all destined by their very contingency to be destroyed. And when they are gone there will be nothing left of me but my own nakedness and emptiness and hollowness, to tell me that I am a mistake.

  Thomas Merton

  Mistake, Ambition, Together

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