Quotes About Ambition

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents.

air castles are often within our grasp late in life, but then they charm not.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Pioneering don't pay.

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

We frequently hear software development leaders tell their staff, "We should operate like Netflix" (or one of these other leading companies). Of course you could do that. First, get yourself a few hundred thousand servers and tens of millions of users...

Like the present-day GOP, the Northern Alliance was a loose coalition of unsavory opportunists, interested chiefly in acquiring power.

You didn't fight so hard to survive – and then do nothing with your life.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

I think the saddest thing in the world is a twenty-five-year-old talking about the stock market.

When you were a little girl, madam," he said, gesturing to her, "was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

The sprinter unwisely indulges his arrogance against the marathon runner, and likewise, parents who encourage their children's narcissism do them no favours. It is best to accomplish something before becoming famous, because if the fame comes first, it often precludes accomplishment...You don't build a career by playing Carnegie Hall. You build a career and then Carnegie Hall will invite you to play.

Dark be not dark but some other desire

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

And for Kevin Costner,, he'll have a big career.

Angus Stevenson

Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.

Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did it necessitate the sombre and monotonous dirge of software, priority banking or turbine building.

arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.

Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.

The real lesson embodied in Katherine's three-year-old frame was the opposite: Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway.