Quotes About Ambition

The recurring theme for me internally is, 'I was content with what I was doing until something way better just showed up.'

After spending my pre-teen years as the singer in a bluegrass band, I convinced my parents to let me drop out of high school and start homeschool, so I could take a job singing in the country show at Dolly Parton's theme park, Dollywood.

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

Nobody ever won a race by standing at the starting line.

She worked as hard as possible but still was doing more rewriting than writing. She had wanted to have thirty pages after three days but she had nine.

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No guarantee any of us will be much of anything, but we still try.

She was determined to figure out who I wanted to be

Estaba haciendo lo mismo que hacía siempre: agachar la cabeza, trabajar duro, hacer planes de futuro e ignorar el presente.

Sometimes, people want something so much -they see what they want to be but they don't know how to achieve it. - Molly

People can be so frightened of failing that they do nothing, or choose something so dull they have no chance of shining. - Molly

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

Há homens nesses tronos, comandante, homens sem escrúpulos, ávidos de poder, que poriam em perigo nações inteiras para satisfazer o seu desejo de supremacia

Trying to be the best at anything carries its own special risks, in or out of the Twilight Zone.

I dreamed instead of did. I wished and hoped instead of tried.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (the Great), better known in English as Pompey

If it had been accepted, it would have turned the Roman state into a Persian vassal.

Philip ('Horse-Loving'), Cleopatra ('Father's Fame'), Ptolemy ('Warlike

Just remember: It's lonely at the top, when there's no one on the bottom.

for many people conversion is simply a matter of aligning their religious life with that of their family, friends, and neighbors who already have joined—thus creating a self-sustaining network of growth. Finally, for many people of privilege and ambition, their abandonment of paganism was a matter of opportunism—many people professed Christianity or were discreet about their paganism in order to gain social and political advantages.

Nada te detiene aqui mas que tus ideas, tus suenos, comprendelo.

Collectively, the Mets are still both too young and too old to afford any but the most modest ambitions, but I think the time has arrived when they can look at each other with something other than pure embarrassment.

El mañana en México suele ser un lugar donde se guardan los fragmentos de los deseos que se estrellaron contra la realidad. Es el cementerio de los proyectos fallidos.