Quotes About Ambition

Confidence. The secret to a man's success.

Whatever you don't won't be enough. Try anyway.

Honest, decent men and women with attainable ambitions, and the determination to see those ambitions through.

Later, you add to that definition: making money. How much money can you make?

In other words," she said, "you've got some magic beans in your pocket. That's what you're telling me. You have some magic beans, and you're going to plant them, and overnight a huge beanstalk is going to grow high into the sky, and you'll climb up the beanstalk, kill the giant who lives in the clouds, and then bring home a goose that lays golden eggs. Is that it?

there's a direct link between doing your work and having your wishes come true.

Every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or live up to his mistakes. You

The audacity of hope.

I realized that for all the power inherent in the seat I now occupied, there would always be a chasm between what I knew should be done to achieve a better world and what in a day, week, or year I found myself actually able to accomplish.

don't live a smaller life than you deserve.

In today's world, other people have become an obstacle to our individual pursuits.

As a teenager, I aspired to be a scientist, but too many things happened to distract me from that goal, so I became instead a science appreciator.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what to hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

A mother's unfulfilled ambitions lie heaviest on her daughters.

Everyone wants the tallest tree to fall

We drove around with "Proud Tobacco Farmer" stickers on our trucks till they peeled and faded along with our good health and dreams of greatness. If you're standing on a small pile of shit, fighting for your one place to stand, God almighty how you fight.

I was born to wish for more than I can have.

I don't see why you're not just going for this.' Dovey looked her in the eyes, in the mirror. 'You are a rocket. You go for thing, Dellarobia. That is you. When did you ever not?' Dellarobia shut her eyes. 'When there was nothing out there to land on, I guess.' 'Now, see,' Dovey clucked, 'that's a woman thing. Men and kids get to just light out and fly, without even worrying about what comes next.

I became determined to know a few steps more of that path every day.

It's true. I'm not a happy-on-the-midlist kind of gal.

This is how conquest occurs: one plan is always larger than the other.