Alain de Botton Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we're truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

  Alain de Botton

  Giving Up, Ambition, Journey

  "What's A Kinder Way To Frame Success?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 1, 2013.

• Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

  Alain de Botton

  Ambition, Anxiety, Contemporary

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.85, Vintage

• If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.

  Alain de Botton

  Ambition, Love Is, Missing

  Alain De Botton (2008). “The Art of Travel”, p.88, Vintage

• A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

  Alain de Botton

  Ambition, Simple, Destiny

• Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

  Alain de Botton

  Confused, Ambition, Envy

  Twitter post from Sep 15, 2013

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