Quotes About Ambition

When the sun finally went down, the cameras started rolling, and I started running around the edge of the Lincoln Center fountain, shouting for all I was worth, "I want everything I've ever seen in the movies!" And the fountain was turned on, in the film and in my life.

For years I had known joy in nothing but victories, and now I felt myself a boy again. When I had wished to climb the Great Keep, it had never occurred to me that the Great Keep itself might wish to climb the sky; I knew better now. But this ship at least was climbing beyond the sky, and I wanted to climb with her.

I take his gold. I'm hated for that by men who would grovel for it, were it offered to them." Myt-ser

I was young, so that I desired high things only.

You have bettered yourself, he said, making such a low bow that the tassel of his cap swept the carpet. You may recall I invariably affirmed you would. Honesty, integrity, and intelligence cannot be kept down. We both know that nothing is easier to keep down, I said. By my old guild, they were kept down every day.

Each time you gain your hearts desire, your heart shall reach for something higher.

It was in this fashion that I began the long journey by which I have backed into the throne.

Catch Catodon … cast out his conation.

I had learned in the intervening time the folly of limiting desire to the possible.

For no man lives long when his dreams are dead.

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

We're like two dogs in battle on their own; They fought all day but neither got the bone, There came a kite above them, nothing loth, And while they fought he took it from them both. From Chaucer's The Knight's Tale

We're like two dogs in battle on their own; They fought all day but neither got the bone, There came a kite above them, nothing loth, And while they fought he took it from them both.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

Everybody has choices, Mother. The poorest girl alive may not be able to choose between being Queen of England or Principal of Newnham; but she can choose between rag-picking and flower-selling, according to her taste. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

Some men see things as they are, and say, why; I dream things as they never were, and say, why not.

Some men dream of things as they are and say; Why? I dream of things that never were and say; Why not?

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.