Quotes About Ambition

Nothing succeeds like address.

The controversial overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

Fran Manushkin

El defecto de que tú me hubieras curado, si me hubieses querido, era el de no colocar nada por encima del beneficio inmediato, de ser incapaz de dejar la pequeña y mediocre presa de los honorarios por la sombra del poder, porque no hay sombra sin realidad; la misma sombra es una realidad. Pero, ¡bah! Yo no tenía más que el consuelo de «ganar mucho», como el tendero de la esquina.

Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être.

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.

Be very wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.)

I am going to seek a grand perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.

It is easy to love power, because power tells you it is majesty and beauty and greatness.

Wishes are thorns, he told himself sharply. They do us no good, just stick into our skin and hurt us.

For a second, she could almost see Caverna as the Kleptomancer did, a murky, monstrous beauty, smiling her fine-fanged smile as she prepared to stretch and grow, shaking out her tunnel-tresses as they became longer and longer. Perhaps Caverna had already known that such an opportunity was open to her. Neverfell imagined her discarding the Grand Steward like a worn-out toy, and reaching for a new favourite, a man who could extend her empire and bring her new strength . . . Maxim Childersin.

Sometimes she felt she would like to engulf him like a trap-lantern, and never share him with anyone or anything else again, not even the light. Even his obsession with ruling Caverna pained her, as if the city were a woman, and a rival.

Some say the favor of the Grand Steward is double-edged. They are wrong. It is all edge, and everybody knows it, and still all the courtiers spend their every waking moment clutching at it and bleeding.

Es como un motor interior, una ilusión, que te impulsa a empezar la jornada.

Qué no voy a hacer con mi vida?

Francesc Miralles

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

I never pursued being 'famous.'

One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

The more you think and talk about your goals, the more positive and enthusiastic you become.

There may have been a time when pride was the very center of your life. You had ambitious thoughts of yourself, your powers, desires, and aims; but now that will begin to change . . . you have been born again.

Any work done by a follower of Christ to the glory of God is "gold, silver, precious stones." But if any follower of Christ works with any self-interest or personal ambition involved, it will be "wood, hay, and stubble" and will be burned.