Quotes About Ambition

She predicted that when she became queen she would feel transformed—grander, nobler, wiser—but she still felt disappointingly just like herself.

Don't think I'm not trying. I'm trying, every day.

Respect the one-hit wonder not for his one hit but for all the days he must have suffered afterward, trying for another.

Achieve a goal and suffer its loss.

Dying young can really help an art career along. It's the careerist's ultimate paradox.

When I indulge in envy, I envy everyone who has ever achieved anything.

Maybe that's what I should be wishing for instead.

Weak men who fall into positions of power are dying to give it up to anyone who will take it.

Most of those who tried to be the best failed. So I tried to be the second-best, and sometimes I succeeded.

She said people found running to something easier than running from something.

Although Mar would be quite pleased to be consort, Skjaldwulf didn't want to be wolfjarl. He wanted Isolfr, and he would take the damned job that went with it, if he could win it, if that was what it took.

The dream was on hold. It wasn't dead.

wanted them to be. If she

Ga voor het hoogste doel, en als je er niet bij kunt, trek dan hogere hakken aan

People can make it hard for you, they can discourage and take the heart out of you, but in the end the only person who can kill your dream is you. Don't ever give up.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

This was the house that Paula had taken me and two other graduate students to years earlier. She had told us to go out on the deck, look at the view of the Atlantic Ocean, and say to ourselves, This is what playwriting can buy. Now

Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Gothic libraries and leafy green quads and romantic dorms with fireplaces and guys who were not only cute but also smart and charming, and, quite possibly, British. In college, we believed, we'd finally find our people.

Unlike those in other professions, artists cut the branch they are sitting on.

The words used to drive me into secret rages, because on the one hand I wanted desperately to live up to my own reputation for cleverness, and on the other it seemed very unfair, that that cleverness, which I had never asked for, could be turned into something with which to cut me down.

See here, look at my hands. Say there's a cobweb spun between them. It's my ambition. And at its centre there's a spider, a color of a jewel. The spider is you. This is how I shall bear you--so gently, so carefully and without jar, you shall not know you are being taken.

I wondered whether the writer of that one had once wished she was Lizzy, but feared that she was more like Mary; I know I did.

Do you know how careful my love will make me? See here, look at my hands. Say there's a cobweb spun between them. It's my ambition. And at its centre there's a spider, a color of a jewel. The spider is you. This is how I shall bear you — so gently, so carefully and without jar, you shall not know you are being taken.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.