Quotes About Ambition

Fake it, until you make it ..

It was about the worst outcome possible for my competitive wife: a town of contented also-rans.

I was not raised by big-dreamer parents who pictured their child as a future president. I was raised by pragmatic parents who pictured their child as a future office worker of some sort, making a living of some sort.

That's what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller.

People want passion. People want a sense of purpose.

These are not people who want to slum it. These are people whose primary purpose is to live in the city but feel like they're in the suburbs.

Detta var i princip det värsta som skulle kunnat drabba min tävlingsinriktade hustru: ett samhälle med belåtna medelmåttor.

But even as he was thinking this, he knew he'd have to aim smaller. That's what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller.

It's probably the reason I'm a second-rate journalist. One of them, at least.

He never had the talent, just the hard wish.

Hadley to play the role of passive partner to his ambitions, but

Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.

Desire urges me on while fear bridals me

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.

An old, tired man. That is what I am. What became of the old fire, drive, ambition? There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronising wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

We all want to grasp the stars. Nieroda came closer than most. But like the rest of us, she overreached and drew back fingers webbed with damnation.

We have to find personal fulfillment. We have to follow our dreams. We have to say, 'I can do that and I should be allowed to do that'.

Mi madre era de clase media, mi padre de clase baja, yo de clase gratuita, ahora soy de clase soñadora.

In Linden Hills they could forget that the world said you spelled black with a capital nothing. Well, they were something and there was everything around them to show it. The world hadn't given them anything but the chance to fail -- and they hadn't failed, because they were in Linden Hills. They had a thousand years and a day to sit right there and forget what it meant to be black, because it meant working yourself to death just to stand still.

Welcome to the world of Cahills. If it isn't impossible, it isn't worth doing.

Gordon Korman

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We're on the roof of the Serenity Plastics Works—the highest point of our universe for our entire lives. Every time you look up, there it is. Eli puts it into words. "This must be how it felt to stand on the summit of Mount Everest for the first time.