Quotes About Ambition

i'm a hustler, swindler, cheater, and liar. - Winston.

The Great American Novel.

Like many men who consider their success incomplete, he was extraordinarily vain and consumed with a sense of his own importance.

He felt his inadequacy to the goal he had so recklessly chosen and felt the attraction of the world he had abandoned.

They walked with some purpose, yet without particular hurry

Do they know that before us lies a road at the end of which is either death or greatness? The two words go around in my head, around and around, until it seems they are the same.

When one has had power in his grasp, and has failed to hold it, and has remained alive—what does one become?

You mustn't give it up," he said, and his voice took on an urgency that he could not understand. "No matter how hard it will seem sometimes, you mustn't give it up. It's too good for you to give it up. Oh, it's good, there's no doubt of it.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

A man obtains only what he strives for. He

You must be ready to confront difficulties if you would realise your hopes. It is the part of man to strive, and not to rely on the favours of Fortune.

Your work is to survive. Neither his kind, nor his kind of thinking will survive long. They are the crown of creation, they are ambition fulfilled—they have nowhere more to go. But life is change, that is how it differs from the rocks, change is its very nature. Who, then, were the recent lords of creation, that they should expect to remain unchanged?

In loyalty to their kind they cannot tolerate our rise; in loyalty to our kind, we cannot tolerate their obstruction. They are the crown of creation, they are ambition fulfilled — they have nowhere more to go. But life is change, that is how it differs from the rocks, change is its very nature

Self-pity and a sense of high tragedy are going to build nothing at all. So we had better throw them out at once, for it is builders that we must become.

once we had developed intelligence we weren't satisfied with the world as we found it;

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

The only tools you need to accomplish your goals are your heart and your brain.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Success is a great deodorant.

Want to know the best part of being a warlord?' came a hoarse whisper. I bit my lip, puzzled by the question. Keir's mouth curled up slowly into a smile. 'I always get what I want.

If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck.

I have nothing to lose. I am going to dare it. I will aim for the sun.

A poet and a doctor. Maybe I could. This the first thought I have of it. Maybe I could.