Quotes About Ambition

She wants to stay right here, with all of those sumptuous plans still in front of her, forever.

no amount of money or logistics is worth a lifetime of settling.

She had always been faintly disappointed in herself, disappointed in school because she had not been remarkable, disappointed when she married because she had not become the perfect housekeeper, most of all disappointed in herself as a mother.

Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.

Passion is a choice. You need to choose to be great. It's not a chance, it's a choice.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

If you want sucess,you must pursue it.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Vision is the starting point of victory.

Good aims not always make good books.

I will write my story for my better self.

I cannot believe of any woman that she can think of fame first. A woman of genius may be absorbed, indeed, in the exercise of an active power, engrossed in the charges of the course and the combat; but this is altogether different to a vain and bitter longing for prizes, and what prizes, oh, gracious heavens! The empty cup of cold metal! so cold, so empty to a woman with a heart.

When Robert and I are ambitious, we talk of buying Balzac in full some day, to put him up in our bookcase from the convent, if the carved-wood angels, infants and serpents, should not finish mouldering away in horror at the touch of him. But I fear it will rather be an expensive purchase, even here.

Most of the people who fail in what they want to accomplish do so because they underestimate who they are. When they don't believe they can succeed at something, they have little chance.

We cannot choose where we come from, but we can choose where we are going, and we can choose the routes we're willing to take to try to get there.

Like queen bees awakened in the hive, one of them would consume the rest. It all came down to who was going to be the last demiurge standing.

It's not the solar system they'll claim, but eventually the universe. It might be lonely. It will be strange. Do you really want to be one of them?

I had the skills, and making myself hate them would have been a real waste of time and energy.

The black Russian wolf-the oborotni-seemed wired together out of broomsticks, but the grip that matched Keith's was as unyielding as the ambition in his eyes.

You bumped your psychopathy up, didn't you?" He smiled generously. "Of course I did. I'm flying. Can't be distracted by doubts.

Well, Haimey Dz, you always wanted to make a legend for yourself. Here's your chance at becoming a really spectacular example of a cautionary tale!

I decided to give more to the goal than to the limitations.

No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.