Quotes About Ambition

It's one thing to be the mistress. That's easy work. But to get the ring? That takes a ruthless cunning you can't help but respect.

Humans were foolish to build their own competitors—but they couldn't help themselves. —ERASMUS, philosophical datanotes

Project Amal could, if successful, give House Corrino a reliable, artificial source of melange, the most precious substance in the universe. But the damned Tleilaxu experiments were taking years too long, and the situation upset him more and more, with each passing month.

married for politics in the first place, lad," he had said. "Never should have tried to make it otherwise. At our station, marriage is a tool. Don't muck everything up by trying to throw love into the mix.

Do you really expect to become more than a machine?" Taking no offense, Erasmus replied, "It is a human trait to better oneself, is it not? That is all I am trying to do.

Only those with narrow minds fail to see that the definition of Impossible is 'Lack of imagination and incentive.' —SERENA BUTLER

Some dreams really do come true. That said, most dreams are weird as shit.

I'm not going to stand here and be eaten by some bitch's dinosaur. I am finally doing something with my life.

I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all-important savior...

Volevo essere un sovrano, un re, avere ciò che ho sempre desiderato: il massimo potere. Una volta che ho conquistato la corona di Albion ho dovuto combattere ancora di più. C'era sempre un qualche bastardo in giro che cercava di rubare la mia corona. Su una torre di teschi ho costruito il mio trono e finalmente ho conosciuto la pace.

Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.

Subtlety and indirection are important tools, but you can't scale the highest peaks with these tools alone.

An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them.

Success equals goals; all else is commentary.

The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.

When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.

The seventh key is that you must have a major definite purpose for your life. You must have one goal that, if you accomplish it, can do more to help you improve your life than any other single goal.

Your problem is to bridge the gap between where you are now and the goals you intend to reach. EARL NIGHTINGALE

You can't hit a target you can't see. You can't accomplish wonderful things with your life if you have no idea of what they are. You must first become absolutely clear about what you want if you are serious about unlocking the extraordinary power that lies within you. Every

When you set more goals, try more things, engage in more activities, and explore more opportunities, your probabilities of success increase dramatically.

Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.