Quotes About Ambition

All you need is the will and the skill

Only he who is not at home in the land of little dogs will be left to become a big dog. And the only advantage of being a big dog in a world of little dogs is that you are no longer afraid to die. But a big dog - least of all a big dog - cannot escape the shame of living either. This is why I'm doing what I'm doing.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

You are a victim of your own mindless greed. This land will radiate glory, but you will never look upon it.

If Leonid the emperor was a lion, his sons were wolves, and now their eyes shone in the dark, brilliant with hunger and ferocity. It couldn't go on like this. Something would happen. Everything would change, and when it did, Merlan very much wanted to be on the winning side.

My future, I feel, is narrow, and I would like my story to be carried out into the world.

Leonid saw what he wanted to see, a world shining with the light of Madragore.

I didn't want to be a pretty bauble. I craved to be far more dangerous." "There are few things more dangerous than a pretty bauble, as Almorante well knew. By now, I expect Tatrini does as well." "I have fulfilled my vocation then.

There was something about the swagger in her walk that alerted him. What was Sofia's agenda?

I lay down among the the rocks, and they were gold and crimson like a royal tomb. I saw wonderous shapes rise from the fumes, twisting and curling like cats about me. They breathed upon me and filled me with fire. I saw myself leading armies. I saw myself killing men, and in my heart I felt a fierce glee. I saw myself ridding the world of all that was worthless.

He wanted to suceed in life, at whatever cost.

In Caradore, Merlan might be regarded as precocious, a prodigy perhaps, but one that needed to be kept in his place. Not here. The Magravandians were aware of the boy's talent and intellect.

If you set out to fail and you succeed, what have you done?

If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.

But to try to achieve something massively significant in a field where you're by and large useless after your fortieth birthday—and my father was seventy-seven—is the height of both delusion and optimism.

This effort to appear dumb—or to put a positive spin on it, to "be a man of the people"—takes a lot of work that in a better world would be unnecessary. You have to really want to be a politician to undertake it.

Don't downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.

Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life.

I don't see where people get all this bull about the kid who's gonna be President and being a newsboy made a President out of him. It taught him how to handle his money and this bull. You know what it did? It taught him how to hate the people on his route. And the printers. And dogs.

Nora Watson may have said it most succinctly. "I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

Americans are always saying, "I'm not enjoying what I'm doing now, but I'm making money. I'm preparing to do a thing which will be more important in the future." In the meantime, make a buck. That's

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.