Quotes About Ambition

Tu vois, je crois que... Cette lutte de tous les jours, elle repose sur l'amour. Pas sur l'ambition, le besoin d'avoir, de posséder, mais sur l'amour... Pas l'amour de sois non plus. Ça c'est le malheur, c'est ce qui nous fait tourner en rond. Non ! Sur l'amour des autres, l'amour de la vie. Quand tu aimes, tu es sauvée.

a dream without a plan is just a wish

The real issue at the Capitol Ministries fund-raiser is that the proponents of this antidemocratic vision no longer seem to feel the need to disguise their ambitions. They, too, are getting ready to king.

Until you are able to see yourself living the life that you truly want, it will be difficult for you to create it.

Dreams are just dreams until they change everything.

Never being promoted to the level that you feel you deserve

But where Ma saw only old books gathering dust and smelling of mildew, I found comfort and possibility. Other worlds were within my grasp—better worlds full of rewarded ambition, refinement, and eloquence. I clung to them as a pilgrim whose faith is proportional to the extremity of their need clings to a relic or a prayer.

There was something naïve, sweetly arrogant about the doctor's assumption that everyone wanted to live forever.

Is there anything more haunting than the ambitions of youth?

fragrance is an aspiration. A goal. Not just a tool of seduction but of power and status.

for those ascending the social ladder, other people are only rungs. And this is a town of climbers." (page 237)

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Humans can't live without projects.

Living among towers can tempt you into complacency.

I don't go to graduate school. Instead, I move to New York, the city where I naively imagine writers must go.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort. —Franklin D. Roosevelt U.S. president

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. —Abraham Lincoln U.S. president

I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it. —Vincent van Gogh artist

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. - Les Brown

Don't count the days, make the days count. -Muhammad Ali Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. -Steve Jobs

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit. - Les Brown

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.