Quotes About Ambition

Decision and purpose directed actions define destination.

World looks narrow for great people, and world looks wide for minor people

Reach for something out of the ordinary. You must dare to even come close.

One sure way to kill a dream, is to suffocate it with worry.

The sky is not the limit, it's the starting point.

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance

here I'm finally doing this thing that I've known I should be doing since I was in eleventh grade. I was certain, like all of us were, that we were doing the right thing.

it kind of seemed like we were in a constant state of suicide the whole time. It wasn't like, 'Gee, we're going to become successful and make a lot of money.

Why are we in a band again?' We just were driven to do it for some reason, I don't know why. Just because we had nothing better to do.

If you really want something in this world,' said Olga simply, 'you'll never get it by sitting down and waiting. But if you go out and do things there's no knowing where you'll end up.

I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Success, however, does nothing to diminish the knowledge that failure stalks everything you do.

It reassured me that, if nothing else in life, at least I'd fulfilled my earliest ambition simply to wander far afield, in spirit if not in space, from the place of my birth.

Singletary arched an eyebrow then, after taking a look around the room, smiled a dubious but encouraging smile, the way you might smile at someone about to depress the ignition button on a homemade jetpack.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank—but that's not the same thing. —Joseph Conrad

The new porch felt sound and solid under the weight of him. Like the rest of the house, it was not and would never be his property, but in those years his ambition was not to own a piece of the world. Just to keep that piece from falling down or burning up around him would suffice.

All around them the cacophony of greed carried on in its most glorious and extreme excess.

The city shimmered out there like a million dreams, not all of them good.

Okay, Mick. And for what it's

All his life he believed he was slumming toward something good.

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vergüenza volver a casa, o bien ganaban tanto que

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really dropped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically— any way you want to look at it— everybody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.