Quotes About Ambition

In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.

For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how you can rise.

There are in me the makings of a very fine loafer...

I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

That's what I should like to be,—envied for my man.

My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.

De qué sirve tener talento, doctor, si no se tiene campo en el que aplicarlo?

La historia de la humanidad está escrita por personas que quieren algo que no pueden tener.

Flaevynn wants only to take Treoir so she can bathe in the pool of immortality that runs beneath the castle." – Cathbad "Can she swim? Maybe she'll drown before the immortality kicks in." – Kizira

It was something Brynna had done a report on in school last year. At the time he'd thought it stupid, but he finally got it. Visualization. In order to make something happen, to become something else, you had to see it clearly in your mind. That was the first step of achieving success. Vague dreams never amounted to anything. Only those that were fully seen could manifest.

You see, the thing about dreams is that it's never really too late to make them come true.

Smart people don't wallow in self-pity. They find a new dream.

Paul resented this historic position she had established for herself in the momentum of his life, and because of it would have liked to see her broken.

She wants her cup of stars.

In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and everyone will read the books I write and want to marry me but I will never marry any of them. I will have lots of money and jewels too.

On the main street of one village she passed a vast house, pillared and walled, with shutters over the windows and a pair of stone lions guarding the steps, and she thought that perhaps she might live there, dusting the lions each morning and patting their heads good night.

My ambitions for you are slowly being realised, and, even though you are unhappy, console yourself with the thought that it was part of my plan for you to be unhappy for a while. The fact that you associate intimately with girls who do not care for the things you do should strengthen your own artistic integrity and fortify you against the world; remember, Natalie, your enemies will always come from the same place your friends do.

Insist on your cup of stars.

Would you think I ought to give up my painting just for a home and a couple of lousy children with running noses?

She wants her cup of stars." Eleanor

and consequently, while I can never be sentimental, I can never be great

We have got to get a bigger house," I said. "Don't be silly," my husband said, reading. "There is no bigger house." "A new house?" said Jannie. "Can I have a room of my own?" When I went down to the grocery the next morning the grocer said he heard we were thinking of moving.

The Goal is what the Character wants. The Motivation is why they want it. The Conflict is the buts (roadblocks) that keep getting in the way.