Quotes About Ambition

Only Puerto Rican girl on the earth who wouldn't give up the ass for any reason. I can't, she said. I can't make any mistakes. ...Paloma was convinced that if she made any mistakes in the next two years, any mistakes at all, she would be stuck in that family of hers forever. That was her nightmare. Imagine if I don't get in anywhere, she said. You'd still have me, you tried to reassure her, but Paloma looked at you like the apocalypse would be preferable.

I always thought of myself as the Kaneda of our dyad, but here I was playing Tetsuo.

Because anything you can dream (he put his hand up) you can be.

Oscar's moms had bought their house with double shifts at her two jobs. Ybón bought hers with double shifts too, but in a window in Amsterdam.)

Homegirl was 'bout about it. Knew that when Gondolin falls you don't wait around for the balrogs to tap on your door. You make fucking moves. And make moves she did. Papers were assembled, palms were greased, and permissions secured.

#RockBottom is wherever you are when you decide to start reaching for the stars again! #NBL

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'

What was the point of being an adult if you couldn't control your master plan?

Ever the collector of treasure maps that promised the world but led nowhere.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

And with every massive success you notch up, you ask for and get more money, not because you want it to buy things with but because it's the only reliable way in this business of keeping score. If you're getting x every night but your best friend and deadliest rival is getting x+1, it's enough to break your heart. So you try harder, and harder still.

Like I said, I'm a disappointment to her. She wanted me to be a murderer and an extortionist, like my father.

I had my pick of three. Never ceases to amaze me, the insane things people will do for money.

I do housework," she said, "and I mend clothes. I'd do a proper job if I could. I'd have been a surgeon, like my father, except it's not allowed." He frowned. "It isn't?" "Of course not. Women can't be surgeons or clerks or lawyers or lecturers at Temple or merchants. There's not actually a law, but there doesn't have to be. People wouldn't stand for it.

If there's a hell, I truly believe, it's getting exactly what you've always wanted.

Ah, my wishes become hopes.

To be a king, is to be a disappointed man.

By losing your goal, you have lost your way.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather in what he longs to attain.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.