Quotes About Ambition

There's only one very good life, Diana wrote. And that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

I want to be Jericho Barrons when I grow up.

He had so many ambitions. She had but one. To love.

Bold. Ruthless. Energy. Action. Tenacity. Hunger. That was what B-R-E-A-T-H was.

I want results and I know how to get them. He's always telling me to ask. Tonight I'm asking.

lust, greed, desire, and supremacy;

It's not much fun always being the best and fastest. A little competition keeps you on your toes, makes you try harder, live larger.

Dude, we're talking immortality. There ain't no price too high!

You look at the world, assess your odds of survival in light of current circumstances, and choose the course that offers the best chance for whatever it is you want.

What it takes to be the last one standing is an unquenchable hunger to live. He who wants it the most wins. It takes fire, willingness to burn down to your motherfucking core.

Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be.

But life has a way of chopping people off at the knees, and he was no exception. Ten years of his life had been stolen from him. Now he wasn't wasting another minute. He wanted to experience everything he had missed, to eat and drink and read and work and fuck as he pleased. His dreams were smaller now, but they were still dreams, and he was going after them with everything he had.

I ignored her and continued down the hall. I had only four more hours to perfect the Sausalito. I was worried only about myself. By that stage, I was no longer certain of how the pack felt about anything.

It's easy to become married. Millions of people do it every year. If you want to pressure me to become something, hey, why not pick something a little more challenging—like an astrophysicist.

Refuse to live a settle for it life.

My mom would say that crying for the moon is a lot like sitting in a rocking chair: It keeps you busy but it won't get you anywhere.

Do I want to know where I came from? Yes. But that doesn't impact who I want to be.

All creatures who have ever walked have wished that they might fly. With highwheelers a flesh and blood man can hitch wings to his feet.

Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'

I am nothing but I must be everything.

Was ich einmal will, das will ich, denn ich bin der Hadschi Halef Omar Ben Hadschi Abul Abbas Ibn Hadschi Dawud al Gossarah!

I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.