Quotes About Ambition

it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

Well, there were plenty of things to do; there always were. There was no end to the wanting.

They want dancing girls! They want thrills! They want elephants! They want people falling off roofs! They want dreams! The world is full of little people with big dreams!

You are aware, are you, that painting a few stars on a perfectly ordinary broomstick doesn't mean it will get airborne?

Everyone had their levers. Often it was greed. Greed was a reliable old standby. Sometimes it was pride. That was Groat's lever. He desperately wanted promotion; you could see it in his eyes. Find the lever, and then it was plain sailing.

Good. Now…if you trust in yourself…" "Yes?" "…and believe in your dreams…" "Yes?" "…and follow your star…" Miss Tick went on. "Yes?" "…you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Good-bye.

Dare to be burned by the heat of our own ambitious hearts.

Robbie Brace, a practical man, had chosen a practical field. Oh, but how it depressed him.

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The greatest challenge in writing your book is maintaining the drive to finish it.

Isabelle has hungry eyes. She is never happy with her situation. I tell her, 'Think about others worse off than you. At least you have a family, at least there is a roof over your head.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Why should I be content with what I have? What is wrong with reaching higher, wanting more?' Ã¢â'¬Â "Ah, but that is the way of the young nowadays.

Think about others worse off than you. At least you have a family, at least there is a roof over your head.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Why should I be content with what I have? What is wrong with reaching higher

Her father spoils her with ideas. He encourages her to climb high, reach for the heavens. But who is there to catch her when she falls? Me. Who has to explain to her that not as many doors are open as she would like to think? Me. So what do I get in repayment? I am the bad person. The one standing in her way. Have you ever seen a daughter who hated her mother so

If you will it, it's not a dream.

If you really want it, then it is no fairy tale

If you will it, it is no dream

he had created a monster.

When waters engulf us we reach for a star.

A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoiter the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy, which should make it prey and subject - the proper penitent, groveling at a woman's slipper.

What a wretched thing it was to be born poor and not to have any one to do anything for you and not to be able to do so very much for yourself!

Clyde was as vain and proud as he was poor

Clyde had a soul that was not destined to grow up. He lacked decidedly that mental clarity and inner directing application that in so many permits them to sort out from the facts and avenues of life the particular thing or things that make for their direct advancement.

Strange ambition. Strange perversion, one might almost say. In

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.