Quotes About Ambition

away from ambition and toward connection.

I'm wasting my life … I haven't done anything worthwhile in years … I need to move somewhere else, do something else, anything … How come I'm not on the Sunday talk shows? How come I'm not in charge of something, like a business?

It was as if, having met so many of my own goals, some perverse organ of my brain was busy creating new, spurious ones.

could not suppress comparisons of myself with others. How come I'm not doing what he or she is doing? Look where she is, and look where I am. Pathetic!

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

I suggest we go into business together. 'Carlyle and Skull,' we'd call it, or possibly 'Skull and Co.' Yes, that's it, with a little picture of me over the door. I can see it now….

Julius Tallow was a fool. He appeared complacent, but like a weak swimmer out of his depth, his legs were kicking frantically under the surface, trying to keep him afloat. Whatever happened, Nathaniel did not intend to sink with him.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.

Full of promise, full of dreams, full of shit. Mostly just full of yourself. So full you're bursting. And then you get out into the world, and people empty you out, little by little, like air from a balloon.

There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

T]here are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

A dream will never be reality, unless you make it reality

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have a pretty good sense of comic thing, so I'd really like to try that.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

Why be a king,when you can be a god?

Success is my only motherfucking option, failure's not.

Let me remind you of what got me this far, picture me quitting, now draw a circle around it and put a line through it, sl#t!