Quotes About Ambition

No one ever told you greed and hunger are not the same.

She's the kind of woman who wants what she doesn't have and gets what she wants and then despises what she gets.

Human beings- I've observed- are hot-wired for score keeping, and since they like to win, they're always going one better than the other fellow.

Girls did that then – knocked themselves out to support some man's notion of his own genius. What was Gavin doing to help pay the rent? Not much, though she suspected him of dealing pot on the side. Once in a while they even smoked some of that, though not often, because it made Constance cough. It was all very romantic.

But I envy the Commander's Wife her knitting. It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained.

on the Street of Dreams it was dream eat dream.

Dream steals from its lair towards its prey.

They all say, Go on to graduate studies, and they give you a bit of money; so you do, and you think, Now I'm going to find out the real truth. But you don't find out, exactly, and things get pickier and pickier and more and more stale, and it all collapses in a welter of commas and shredded footnotes, and after a while it's like anything else: you've got stuck in it and you can't get out, and you wonder how you got there in the first place.

It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained.

In her place I would have just laid down in a ditch and cried myself to death. But Amanda says if there's something you really want, you can figure out a way to get it. She says being discouraged is a waste of time.

It is my opinion that they sometimes take what is intended for us, which would not surprise me in the least, as it is dog eat dog around here and they are the bigger dogs.

It would make me feel that I have power. But such a feeling would be an illusion, and too risky.

At least, I said, she's got what she thinks she wants, and I suppose that's something.

No. It's the newly conscious young I mean, the ones with ambition and fresh diffidence, those who've learned the hard way that reach exceeds grasp nine times out of ten. How disappointed they are! And if and when they succeed for the first time, how anxious it makes them! They develop insomnia, or claustrophobia, or bulimia, or fear of heights. Now they will have to live up to themselves. Bummer.

the road to success is littered with mistakes, it matters more to build trust and encourage ambition than to reward obedience. At

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world." "Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

She wasn't going to sit down and patiently wait for a miracle to help her. She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.

She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.

There was no going back and she was going forward.

She knew what she wanted and went after it by the shortest route...

With the spirit of her people those who would not know defeat, even when it stared them in the face, she raised her chin. She could get Rhett back. She knew she could. There had never been a man she couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him. I'll think of it all tomorrow at Tara. I can strand it then. Tomorrow , I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

desear y conseguir eran dos cosas distintas. La vida no le había enseñado que correr no siempre significa alcanzar.

I always intended having you, Scarlett, since that first day I saw you at Twelve Oaks when you threw that vase and swore and proved that you weren't a lady. I