Quotes About Ambition

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.

What are our expectations? Which of the things we desire are within reach? If not now, when? and will there be some left for me?

Todos os dias acordava, ficava um bocadinho na cama, chegava ao trabalho – onde o serviço já ia a todo o vapor – e procurava alguém para ser despedido.

Não sou nenhum atirador ressentido, pronto para deitar abaixo os meus pares mais bem-sucedidos (embora esteja pronto para isso, quando a oportunidade se apresentar). Habitualmente sou o tipo que eles chamam para um acontecimento famoso, quando o primeiro chefe mostrou ser um psicopata, ou então um bêbado, bera e megalómano.

England's worst boss? I don't think so. England's worst boss is the boss who doesn't give a fuck, someone who's wasting his employees' time, challenging them to do nothing more ambitious than show up.

What destroys the dream? What destroys it, eh?..........Disappointment. Disappointment. Disappointment.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Power, power, everybody like wants power

But you could viddy a like gleam in his glazzies, because now he would be taking over for this nochy. Power power, everybody like wants power.

Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-etre - I go to seek a great perhaps.

Flea, you can't quit, I pleaded. I'm going t? be the James Brown of the eighties.

I wanted to be the best at whatever it was that was in front of me.

Like many persons more interested in power than sensual enjoyment, Sillery touched no strong drink.

This ideal conception?that one should have an aim in life?had, indeed, only too often occurred to me as an unsolved problem; but I was still far from deciding what form my endeavours should ultimately take.

Widmerpool still represented to my mind a kind of embodiment of thankless labour and unsatisfied ambition.

He was a weedy-looking young man with straw-coloured hair and rather long legs, who had failed twice for the Foreign Office. He sometimes wore tortoiseshell-rimmed spectacles to correct a slight squint, and through influence he had recently got a job in a museum. His father was a retired civil servant who lived in Essex, where he and his wife kept a chicken farm.

Even then I did not recognise the quest for power.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

Goals are like magnets. They'll attract the things that make them come true.

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be, precisely determine what we will be.

The only reason we don't have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can't have them.

Everything we do, we do for a reason.

Some men see things as they are, and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were, and say, 'Why not?'" —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW