Quotes About Ambition

If you work for a soccer club, your goal is generally to keep working there, not to be shown up by some overeducated young thing who has actually learned something about business. In part this is because much of the traditionally working-class soccer industry distrusted education.

The need to bring down to our own wretched level, to deface, to deride and debunk any splendour that is towering above us, is probably the saddest urge of human nature.

Make no little plans," he urged. "They have no magic to stir men's blood.

Angel: And what will you do with the world, once it is yours?' N. Hob: 'Punish it, for not loving me.

sometimes dreams are all that can keep you going. Give them up, and you're dead.

I could have been a contender, if I'd cared enough.

You have to believe in your dreams because sometimes they believe in you.

I'll say this for the man: He never had any problems thinking big. Thinking rationally and responsibly, yes, major problems there . . .

You have to believe in dreams, because sometimes they believe in you.

That was the real triumph of the revolution, Napoleon thought with a slight nod. A man might rise as high as any on the basis of merit alone, and not because of some accident of birth. That was why France would win, in the end. For what nation could hope to stand against a nation of men free to pursue their ambitions?

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Young Stalin Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner

Beneath the eerie calm of these unfathomable waters were deadly whirlpools of ambition, anger and unhappiness.

Stalin impressed Trotsky, whose description reveals why he lost their struggle for power. 'Stalin was very valuable behind the scenes,' he wrote. 'He did have the knack of convincing the average run

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

Dreamers conquered the world long ago.

I never want her to know that fatherhood was the ambition of my life.

Dreams are the unfinished wings of our souls.

John of Bavaria, realizing the game was up and his throwing in the priesthood and marrying had just wasted everyone's time, made Philip the Good his heir. He was shortly thereafter assassinated in The Hague with a poisoned prayer book (yes, really – nothing can beat the fifteenth century).

Don't limit yourself. Think about a career that would give you pleasure or bring you satisfaction.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

I hate games I can't win.

Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins.