Quotes About Ambition

Not everyone likes an "ambitious" woman. When it's said about a man it's always in a good way. But a woman? Not so much.

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Don't stop now. Keep going. The next time someone makes you feel though, winning as you are, perhaps you're getting too big for your britches; say to them silently, i haven't even started yet.

How could everybody think that this stupid game of "making it in the world"—which I was actually embarrassed I didn't know how to play—could be all there is to our being here?

In fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of contraction emotionally and physically. It seems to give us energy but doesn't really.  Like the white sugar of mental health, there's a short high followed by a crash.  The cultivation of mental rest or surrender is like eating healthy food.  It doesn't give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy.

I choose not to remain at good today, but rather to answer the call to greatness.

Bara människor utan visioner flyr in i verkligheten.

That's why they can't get ahead. Wouldn't look for work, just living like they still slaves. Sitting down on they backside talking 'bout slavery, slavery. Everything for them is slavery and white man fault. Blaming slavery when is they own laziness causing they problems, with they no-ambition selves. Still taking what massa give them and calling it welfare." Margaret

Some might have said that he was color-struck, but color had nothing to do with it, it was all about where he had come from and where he wanted to go—it had been all about the climb.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Creators are hard-driving, focused, dominant, independent risk-takers.

When we are children, when we are young, it is natural to love our friends, to be generous to them, to forgive their faults.. But as we grow old and have to earn our bread, friendship does not endure so easily. We must always be on our guard. Our elders no longer look after us, we are no longer content with those simple pleasures of children. Pride grows in us – we wish to become great or powerful or rich, or simply to guard ourself against misfortune.

None of us here want to see our children follow in our footsteps, it's too hard a life.

Nothing was more calming, more conducive to pure reason, than the atmosphere of money.

My dear Guiliano, he said, how is it that you and Don Croce do not join together to rule Sicily? He has the wisdom of age, you have the idealism of youth.

It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell.

He wanted the world to believe that he was a horse rider. So let him ride his horses at the bottom of the ocean.

destiny had decided that he was to become a Don and had brought Fanucci to him to set him on his destined path.

Nekad neuztraucies par naudu. Dom? par slavu.

The Don sighed. "Well, then I can't talk to you about how you should behave. Don't you want to finish school, don't you want to be a lawyer? Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.

No existía ninguna atmósfera mejor que la del dinero para entrar en razones.

Like any other parent he wanted his children to go to better schools and mix with better companions

But great men are not born great, they grow great, and so it was with Vito Corleone.