Quotes About Ambition

Ambition gripped Brambleclaw like an eagle's talons. Hard as it was to admit it, he knew that he wanted to be deputy, and then leader, of his Clan. Was this what Tigerstar had felt? he wondered.

Tigerclaw will be the new deputy of ThunderClan.

It is always goodWhen a man has two irons in the fire.

The devil take the hindmost!

The next bit is tricky. By holding on with only one hand, and wedging the corresponding foot between the pipe and the wall, I swing out far enough to feel my outstretched fingers brush the window ledge. Not quite far enough. Life is like that.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm--it can creep, but it cannot fly.

Many men want wealth--not a competence alone, but a five-story competence. Every thing subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning rod to their houses, to ward off, by and by, the bolts of divine wrath.

A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

That sense of power was all she craved.

I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again.

Move toward your dreams, not away from your problems.

In the concrete jungle it's sink or swim: you can't be timid or tentative; you have to forge through, make your mark, enter the fray.

She looked out at the crowd of people who loved her, her smile meant for each and every one of them. "So many of my wishes have already come true." Her grin grew wider. "And still, I want more. At

Nothing is worthwhile on this unhappy earth except the fulfilment of a man's desire.

I didn't want to be ignored. I didn't want my books to be ignored. But I didn't really care to cut such a figure either because ... well, it interferes with the business of writing.

The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam,' I said which means, 'I'll either find a way or make one

But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.

Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.