Quotes About Ambition

You better find out what you want in life, because that's what you're going to get!

Arise, Lord King, for the enemy is come; even Ambrosius and Uther, upon whose throne thou sittest—and full twenty thousand with them—and they have sworn by a great oath, Lord, to slay thee, ere this year be done; and even now they march towards thee as the north wind of winter for bitterness and haste.

I feel like I'm slipping but do people who are actually slipping feel that way or is it always the really good people who are moving up who invariably think they're slipping because their standards are so high?" Arron Altman Broadcast News 1987

I feel like I'm slipping but do people who are actually slipping feel that way or is it always the really good people who are moving up who invariably think they're slipping because their standards are so high?

But although the young Houston could secret himself away for hours enraptured by the classics, in a classroom he remained, from all indications, terrible.

You ain't never going to get rich that way, Johnson. And there's money in that dick. Lots of money.

Uncertainty is the first step toward self-determination," Plagueis said. "Courage comes next.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

We're just two punks, Frank. God kissed us on the brow that night. He gave us all that two people can ever have and we just weren't the kind that could have it. [I]t's a big airplane engine, that takes you through the sky, right up to the top of the mountain. But when you put it in a Ford, it just shakes it to pieces. That's what we are, Frank, a couple of Fords.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government.

There I was, "striving to be something I would never want to be.

Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.

The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. -James Ramsey Ullman

The rise and fall of Tony Montana, and what a way to go out.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. —IPHIGENIA, A TRAGEDY BY QUINTUS ENNIUS (239–169 B.C.)

Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.