Quotes About Ambition

The world is not enough.

Think I like this job? Having a Double-O number and so on? I'd be quite happy for you to get me sacked from the Double-O Section. Then I could settle down and make a snug nest of papers as an ordinary Staffer. Right?

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus Ã¢â'¬â€œ that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves. "Give me a fulcrum and I will move the world" Ã¢â'¬â€œ but only if the desire to move the world is there.

Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.

I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore...it's in the stars!

Everything that impeded him had to be outweighed, even if only by a fraction, by all that drove him on.

Join MI5? I was ready to lead it.

In difficult moments it's sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can't, move on to the second best thing.

The very word 'history' conjured a dull success of thrones and murderous clerical wrangling.

Surely, there was grandeur in experiment.

The money to buy even the cheapest of these things had been earned by Clive dreaming up sounds, by putting one note in front of another. He had imagined everything here, he had willed it all to be here, without anyone's help.

And these are only the ones I happen to know about. As soon as you discover you're not the best, you throw it in and hate yourself. Same with relationships. You want too much and move on.

and I have been unwillingly forced to the conclusion that Rochefort committed the one unforgivable sin. To certain individuals of small mind and overweening ambition, there is no greater insult than to be proved wrong.

One day, she'd find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.

One day some other Prime will threaten our House, and when that day comes, I'll kill him." What? I'll do it quiet and clean, and nobody will ever know." Leon smiled. "I'm going to be a dark horse, House Baylor's secret. I'll be the best assassin. A legend. They'll never see me coming." I would kill Kurt. I would strangle him with my bare hands.

The newcomer struck him as an enterprising sort of man. The kind that would slit your throat for a box of tissues in your bag while you slept.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family... Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

I'm a hard-working young man who believes in myself.

Jim MacLaine was the hero of Ray Connolly's 1973 movie 'That'll Be the Day', about a young man turning his back on a university education at the turn of the '60s in order to try his hand in a rock n' roll band.

That young man that I was in 1988 - I was insecure. Besides making good music, I wanted to be cool; I wanted to be accepted and stuff.

To arrive in a city like Milan as a young man was a huge challenge.

I'm a very humble young man. I've always had to work for everything that I had.

In truth, I never dreamed of being a manager. Like every other boy in Brazil who was marked by the '70 World Cup, I dreamed of wearing the yellow shirt for the national team. Unfortunately, that was not my fate. I had to undergo seven surgeries on my knee. At 27, my career was over, and I was still a young man.

I was an earnest young man who just wanted to make music.