Quotes About Ambition

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.

Watch The Throne' is my favorite project. The production, the way they carried themselves, it's amazing.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

When I'm good at something, I always try to be the best at it and claim that throne. Even in school, I never let anyone say anything to me; I would always be the smartest.

Duryodhan was a prince fighting for his throne. He was powered by ambition and aspiration. Parshuram is godly. His fight is against injustice at a larger societal level. I've enjoyed playing both the characters.

It's really annoying for me. That's not what I'm playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron's throne or whatever.

I don't want money fights. I want to get paid, and like I said, I want to defend my throne.

Nothing me and Kanye can do musically was gonna match the event of what we were trying to do. So we were trying to deliver an album and experience at one time; that was the idea for 'Watch The Throne'.

Drag Race' is a lot like 'Game of Thrones.' There's a lot of different alliances, queens fight for the crown, they take the throne.

Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.

I'm never sure how to rank these things, but I will say that it has been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid to play for the Queen of England. Preferably in the throne room.

I'm not stepping off my throne to address no bum, no chicks that are beneath me and nobody that hasn't worked as hard as I worked for anything.

If you are not born a Ronaldo or a Kaka, you can still become a great player through commitment, serenity, perseverance, loving what you do.

Have a dream, chase it down, jump over every single hurdle, and run through fire and ice to get there.

I love the work, love the grind. I love what I have to go through to get what I want.

I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.

Let there be no mistake: John W. Nordstrom was no retail expert. But throughout his life, he did what he had to do - hopefully we all have that in us.

When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding myself as a writer was a bad move. The practical difference the money has made is that I can support myself by fiction. That is what I have been trying to do throughout my life.

There are guys throughout the NFL that get the chance one way or the other.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

I guess, throughout my entire time in NXT, I didn't really have any false expectations of what it would be like to reach the main roster. I knew you'd have to work harder. I knew you'd have to bring it every single time.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.