Quotes About Ambition

I wanted everything for you to be better. I wanted you to have the best circumstances, the best character. I didn't want you to regret anything. And that's why I named you Waverly. It was the name of the street we lived on. And I wanted you to think, this is where I belong. But I also knew if I named you after this street, soon you would grow up, leave this place, and take a piece of me with you.

ethnicity? And I remembered reading an article about baby boomers, how we expect the best and when we get it we worry that maybe we should have expected more, because it's all diminishing returns after a certain age.

This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!—it is too beautiful to eat.

Luyi, it means 'all that you wish.' 

But my main motivation is fear of regret.

podré escribir algo grande algún día? ¡Llegaré algún día a ser periodista y escritora?

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.

The more hunger, the greater the desires

And now to work. Maybe you need a woman behind you, as I need a man behind me. I said a man! Mars the warrior, with fire in his nostrils. Anaïs

I have holes in my shoes. I do not pay my bills. I try to finish House of Incest.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Money gives you independence; but when you start chasing it, it is never enough.

The benefit of thinking you will die at fifty is that it can spur you to accomplish a lot of things at a young age, which is what I have attempted to do, but now the prospect of living longer makes me uncertain about the plans I've made.

My life was never destined to be quite happy. . . . Inherited wealth is a real handicap to happiness. It is as certain a death to ambition as cocaine is to morality.

But Truman Capote wasn't interested in humanizing Gloria Vanderbilt, even while he floated in her majestic swimming pool. Instead, he wanted to resent her.

The ideology of New York City was, is, and probably always will be profit.

Big dreams, are so damn tiring.

But—a spaceship! It was something that had so long been laughed to scorn. When men had failed to go farther into space after the initial excitement of the moon landings, space flight had become a matter for jeers.

Greatness is not synonymous with perfection or popularity. In the long-arc narratives of male genius that reach far beyond a lifetime, greatness is established despite, and in the glaring light of, great flaws. Great men are by definition to be reckoned with and honored for the dilemmas they force us to confront, while the ways to castigate a woman of brilliance and ambition are second-nature and sometimes fatal, whether she's deemed evil or merely, as they say, problematic.

Exactly. Once you've disposed of your cargo, sail to Dartmouth in their ship. Then sink it, reboard the Fortune, which will be in the cove we agreed on, and await my arrival." So saying, Armon held up the black gem, pivoting it slowly in order to admire all its facets. "I've waited a long time for this day. And no one and nothing is going to stand in my way." "Good morning." That deep baritone penetrated Courtney's haze, and she blinked, taking

Why are they all trying to make me into a saint? Oh God! Oh God! I want to do things. Stop turning me into a saint.