Quotes About Ambition

If my Rolls-Royce splashes you with mud as you're waiting for a bus, you'll know that I've taken to crime.

I suppose that one can, if one has the determination, always get something out of life.

Surely, I thought, in a world where man has been able to put satellites in the sky and where men talk big about visiting the stars, there must be something that rouses you, that makes your heart beat, that's worthwhile searching all over the world to find!

Lo malo es que las personas son insaciables. Algunas personas. Muchas veces, así es como empieza todo. No se empieza con el asesinato, con el deseo de cometerlo, ni siquiera pensándolo. Se empieza siendo, sencillamente, avaricioso, queriendo tener más de lo que se ha de recibir.

Il guaio, con me, era che avevo voluto sempre troppe cose, e le avevo volute con avidità e senza essere disposto a rinunciare a niente.

Greta avevo capito com'ero fatto fin dal primo momento in cui mi aveva conosciuto. Non avevamo mai nutrito stupide illusioni l'uno sul conto dell'altra. Lei aveva il mio stesso tipo di mentalità, desiderava le stesse cose che desideravo io. Volevamo il Mondo, e non ci saremmo accontentati d'altro. Volevamo tutto ciò che la vita poteva offrirci. Volevamo soddisfare qualunque ambizione. Volevamo avere tutto, non volevamo negarci niente.

Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man.

The true Western spirit of hustle," said Poirot with a smile.

I've got a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise. A beastly thing, compromise, but it steals upon you as you near middle age.

You are probably right there. You want me to — hush it up, then?" "That's my idea. I'll admit frankly that I'm selfish about it. I've got my way to make — and I'm building up a good little business as a tailor and outfitter.

Masa muda adalah masa yang rawan. Masa muda itu kejam, sekaligus penuh keyakinan. Penuh harapan, juga penuh persyaratan.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less of a man.

nu trecutul conteaza, ci viitorul.

It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.

That's what she always wanted to be—at the centre of things.

if you're born on the wrong side of the wall, I can't see that it's wrong to climb over it.

It is hard when you are twenty-four years of age, and your one ambition in life is to reduce your handicap at golf, to be forced to give time and attention to the problem of earning your living.

Ah, well, bad blood somewhere. Mind you, I like the rascal—but he's the kind who would murder his grandmother for a shilling or two quite cheerfully. No moral sense. Odd the way some people seem to be born without it.

To be content with what Nature has given you, that - that is stupid!

It is not so simple as it seems," he ended. "There is the desire for power and very often a strong inferiority complex.

It is not the past that matters,but the future

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Once You Love What You Do, You'll Reach What You Are Doin' it For ...

And some look through a broken spyglass onto the horizon in search for gold