I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

我没有治理人类的野心;这是一个痛苦而又吃力不讨好的办公室。

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

我立刻放弃了我的学术抱负，开始全职写小说。

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.

我从来没有想过我会变得多么富有。我有很多同龄人认为这是他们的抱负，但我不知道有多少人是快乐的。

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

我曾经认为我有野心……但现在我不太确定。这可能只是不满。他们容易混淆。

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

我宁愿部分伟大，也不愿完全无用。

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

我完全赞成野心和有弹性的目标。我自己设置的。但是领导和拉拉队不一样。相信某件事是实现它的必要条件，但绝对不够。

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

我活在当下。我没有野心。这是真的。但我想活下去。

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

我有一个伟大的抱负，死于疲劳而不是无聊。

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.

在我的一生中，我从来没有过多地展望未来。从一开始我就没有什么宏伟的计划。我没有强烈的野心去做我所做的事。

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

如果一个人在这个世界上没有野心，他就会在不知不觉中受苦。如果一个人有野心，他会有意识地承受痛苦，但会很慢。

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

如果这是艺术家的标志，爱艺术先于一切，放弃一切，为艺术而放弃一切，认为只要他能得到一些东西，做一些好事，伟大的工作，生活中所有美好的东西就会失去，那么我从来就不是一个艺术家。

If you become a dog, turn into the dog of a wealthy family.

如果你变成了一只狗，那就变成一只富裕家庭的狗。

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

如果你有野心，你可能不会取得任何成就，但没有野心，你几乎肯定不会取得任何成就。

In a wealthy man's house there is no lean dog.

富人家里没有瘦狗。

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

独立不是一时兴起或雄心壮志。这是我们民族生存的必要条件。