All GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Quotes about “Ambition”

“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”
“All progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
“I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.”
“What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw â€“ I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.”
“If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.”

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