Quotes About Ambition

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.

Where's your sketch pad?" I asked. … "I gave that up," Kay said. "I wasn't very good, so I changed my major." "To what?" "To pre-med, then psychology, then English lit, then history." "I like a woman who knows what she wants." Kay smiled. "So do I, but I don't know any.

Jimmy Hoffa said, "I know how Jesus must have felt. The fucking pharaohs rose to power on his coattails like the fucking Kennedy brothers are rising on mine." Heshie Ryskind said, "Get your history straight. It was Julius Caesar that did Jesus in.

Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven

Would appreciate your convoying (sic) the following to Joe DiMaggio in the event the Yankees don't pay more than $37,000: 'We cordially invite you to try out with the 143rd Infantry, 36th Division. The pay is only $21 a month but that's better than nothing. Please advise. P.S. Why settle for yesterday's salary?

Jake Sully: This is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it. from "Avatar

When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

People who migrate are usually either dissatisfied at home or ambitious to improve their lot; but upper classes are already successful, and so have no reason to go to a wilderness to start afresh. Plain as these facts are, people still look for distinguished ancestors. It seems not to be enough that one's family tree shows decent, ambitious, God-fearing people; they must be wellborn.

I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time.

I've plotted and schemed all my life. There is no other way to be a King, fifty and alive all at once.

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.

I needed a day job that required me mostly to use my mind and hands, because my heart and soul belonged to my dreams.

I also wish I'd been born with a clearly defined talent for something, or else stupid.

If you don´t try, you don´t get. "Exactly,

Why had I entered this profession? I could have gone in for something easier and gentler—like coalmining or lumberjacking.

All men of action are dreamers.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

He swung so hard, you could've turned him upside down and shaken every piece of change out of his pocket, and he would have never missed a beat.

If you can dream it, you can write it. After all, a dream is just a dream until you bring it to fruition.

Do you know why they failed? Because the universe, let alone regular society, does not give a shit about you or your dreams. I don't mean that in a negative way – it's just the cold, boring truth.

Level 5 leaders, Collins argues, 'channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. Their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.' Pass the ball.