Quotes About Ambition

Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose.

Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world.

Victory is a thing of the will.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.

A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

We went there to serve God, and also to get rich.

I was afraid the fire would not be hot enough for me to distinguish myself.

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

He wanted to open her up like a new WalMart.

Annabelle gazed wistfully toward the doorway. "If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.

But there was something she didn't understand. To him, winning was everything. And he wasn't above cheating. With

From the very beginning, Annabelle had made him happy, but he'd been so focused in the wrong direction that he hadn't understood what that meant. Annabelle wasn't the woman of his dreams. Far from it. His dreams had been the product of insecurity, immaturity, and misdirected ambition. No, Annabelle was the woman of his future…the woman of his happiness.

If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.

Felicity's voice came dark and sinister. "Bring me the head of Nikola Tesla.

If I can't acquire an item from a public museum, I should give up the business.

It is funny how time goes so slow one day, sometimes for a whole season or a whole year, and then it's like a fast-forward button is pressed, and where did time go? How could you move no closer to the life you dreamed for yourself?

All men dream, all men have a dream, all men want a dream.... I have none, What shall I put in its stead? I do not know.Melancholy is my only companion, and she does not dream either.

I was on the way to becoming a duchess, and I had made the Kingmaker angry. What more could a child of seven have accomplished in one day?

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

It's really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what it's got. Give a man the world and he's still pining for the moon.

THE MIND OF THIS COUNTRY, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." In 1837, Emerson struck that note mainly as a rhetorical device, in a young nation obviously engaged in building up its intellectual capital.