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Quotes About Ambition

Thanks. But I have to do
~ Susan Mallery
I think everyone who gets to have dreams should reach for them. I want to help you reach.
~ Susan May Warren
When something is just bad (rather than Camp), it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition.
~ Susan Sontag
The early Romantic sought superiority by desiring, and by desiring to desire, more intensely than others do.
~ Susan Sontag
Gaudi's lurid and beautiful buildings in Barcelona are Camp not only because of their style but because they reveal — most notably in the Cathedral of the Sagrada Familia — the ambition on the part of one man to do what it takes a generation, a whole culture to accomplish.
~ Susan Sontag
At some times in our lives, our passion makes us perpetrators of hurt and loss. At other times we are the ones who are hurt—all in the name of art. Sometimes we get what we want. Sometimes we pay for another to get what he or she wants.
~ Susan Vreeland
What I want to do and what I have to do are always fighting each other like alley cats.
~ Susan Vreeland
I hated when people said I was talented. At this point I would have much preferred they told me that I sucked, that I should give it up, go back to school, find a new career.
~ Susan Walter
It's hard to leave a dream behind if you don't have a new one to move toward.
~ Susan Walter
Dreams changed a person, and there was a little danger in that, because having a powerful dream made you vulnerable to failure and disappointment.
~ Susan Wiggs
There were few forces greater than the power of a fourteen-year-old's determination when she wanted something. A teenager would stop at nothing in order to get her way.
~ Susan Wiggs
Passion for a pursuit was the best feeling.
~ Susan Wiggs
She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true.
~ Susan Wiggs
Go and take what you want from life, Arnufo liked to counsel him. Don't wait for it to hand you something. Things given away freely are given away for a reason—because no one else wants them.
~ Susan Wiggs
But I was too many things, and wanted too many things, and could never decide which ones might (if I would pay them the proper attention) be most important.
~ Susan Wittig Albert
The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?
~ Joseph Schumpeter
I believe in one thing only the power of human will.
~ Joseph Stalin
I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.
~ Joseph Stalin
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will
~ Joseph Stalin
i am not a millionaire son " but i make my son become the , millionaire son. by jostalin
~ Joseph Stalin
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Nor did I share the anxiety with which each one measured up his chances of success. The subjects taught at the lycee did not inspire me in the least. I worked for working's sake. I endured them.
~ Joseph Zobel
living to make, and he wanted to make it here in these parts, where
~ Josephine Cox
Nineteen and living a life not his own, he was sure enough of his worth to put his name to his work and let it stand for him. Did not even have a wife yet, according to Queen, so it was not love that set him to cutting the pine, but a trust and a longing.
~ Josephine Humphreys