Quotes About Ambition

Could there be another place for coldhearted cats who had been ready to use the warrior code for their own dark ambitions?

I don't think I am any different from other people. I have the same dreams. I want a family. I want a house. A car. Why shouldn't I want that? Everybody does. And when I have it, I want it all to work.

For det er prestasjonene som gjør det, det er det at vi skal være så flinke som gjør det, at jeg skal være så flink, at jeg skal være den flinkeste og den beste på mitt område, at vi alle vil være den beste, at vi vil prestere og være flinke, og når vi har vært flinke lenge, blir vi trøtte og får bare lyst til å sove.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I' That's where courage comes in.

In his countenance this person read an expression of no-encouragement towards his venture.

Everybody wants to rule the world.

Now, I have a new quest. A far more important one." "And that is?" "Revenge.

The single window had once provided a view of the Columbus skyline, but I'd spray-painted it completely black a few days after I moved in. I'd decided that everything outside the window was a distraction from my quest

I cleared my throat and recited my pass phrase. Each word appeared on my display as I said it. "No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful.

That was what saved me, I think. Suddenly I'd found something worth doing. A dream worth chasing. For the last five years, the Hunt had given me a goal and purpose. A quest to fulfill. A reason to get up in the morning. Something to look forward to.

I'll still be sitting on my ass all day, five blocks from where I graduated, working the same crappy retail job I had when I was sixteen?" I finished for her. "Exactly." I tried to look hurt. "I find your lack of faith disturbing.

The farther I went, the more confident I became.

was sticking.

get your hands on all this moolah?

I don't want to work with you." I leveled a finger at him. "You give me the creeps. But if your superiors are willing to fire your ass and give me your position, I'm in. It's a done deal." Silence.

Ninguém no mundo consegue o que quer e isso é bonito.

Competition brings out the best in me.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try…

The empty picture frame is where you college diploma will go

His wife spotted the danger in our resolutely bohemian ways. "You have only one year left before you qualify as a doctor and yet you're going away? You have no idea when you'll be back? But why?" We couldn't give precise answers to her desperate questions and this horrified her...

In America, it's where you end up that matters, not how you get there. As long as you get there, no one asks questions. You don't ask. You never ask. And if someone does ask how you got there? It's usually a harmless person who never got anything, never got out, died paying rent as he waited for God to deliver him.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

It is the natural ambition of the power holder to cast a criminal light on legal resistance and even non-acceptance of its demands, and this aim gives rise to specialized branches in the use of force and the related propaganda. One tactic is to place the common criminal on a higher level than the man who resists their purposes.

The moment we give in, no machine in the world can help us. But as long as we do not lose the feeling that calls out to every valiant man, 'You are born to rule,' we shall always know how to create the best instruments of power of our time.