Quotes About Ambition

and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything

He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders. Also I didn't have 20/20 vision, which you needed to be a pilot. But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

Quando avrò una laurea in matematica, o in fisica, o in matematica e fisica, troverò un lavoro e guadagnerò un sacco di soldi e sarò in grado di pagare qualcuno che si occupi di me e cucini per me e mi lavi i vestiti, oppure troverò una donna che mi sposi e si prenda cura di me, che mi faccia un po' di compagnia per non rimanere da solo.

He asked whether I wanted to become an astronaut and I said I did. He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders.

But she wasn't really listening, because underneath it all ran the fear that it had nothing to do with good fortune, that he had earned this, and she resented him because she could have done it, too, if she'd applied herself properly, become a lawyer, moved to Canada, run a business, and what she saw when she looked at Richard was not his success but her own failure.

Then, when I've got a degree in maths, or physics, or maths and physics, I will be able to get a job and earn lots of money and I will be able to pay someone who can look after me and cook my meals and wash my clothes, or I will get a lady to marry me and be my wife and she can look after me so I can have company and not be on my own.

Then, when I've got a degree in maths, or physics, or maths and physics, I will be able to get a job and earn lots of money and I will be able to pay someone who can look after me and cook my meals and wash my clothes, or I will get a lady to marry me and be my wife and she can look after me so I can have company and not be on my own.

ripe to hit the fairway. The famously competitive

I like the race, rather than the winning. Do you really? Yes, I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.

I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.

They knew that to survive in Manhattan he would have to know something of bitterness before he arrived.

You don't want to be content with yourself. People who are, are insufferable, the walking dead. But you don't want to be entirely driven, either, because then you just skate over the world and never touch it.

I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.

the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage.

I guess I can picture things once they're done - I just can't picture actually doing them.

Wherever church government is mingled with ambition, we find leaders who value members primarily for how they contribute to the church's vision.

Big oaks grow from small acorns, and activity is a precursor to accomplishment. You don't think yourself into success.

There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what s/he is told to do. And the other is the person who does no more than s/he is told to do. - Andrew Carnegie

Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be extraordinary.

position never determines performance, ultimately performance determines position in life.

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing.

A woman wears many hats in one lifetime -- why shouldn't one of them be a crown?

But I have discovered something about modest people. They're just waiting for the call. Then they are the first over the wall and into the temple.