Quotes About Ambition

WHEN I WAS LITTLE, I was so girlie and ambitious, I was practically a drag queen. I wanted to be everything at once: a prima ballerina, an actress, a model, a famous artist, a nurse, an Ice Capades dancer, and Batgirl. I spent inordinate amounts of time waltzing around our living room with a doily on my head, imagining in great detail my promenade down the runway as the new Miss America, during which time I would also happen to receive a Nobel Prize for coloring.

Everybody thinks that once you reach the top, you can lie back on a divan with a goddamn mai tai. No. Wrong. Success is not a mountain climb. Success is a treadmill.

Sometimes she wasn't even sure she existed and could not have said what her truest feelings were, or indeed where she ended or began. The girl felt she had no proper shape, no sides as it were, and she dreamed of being more fixed, more clever, of winning the admiration of brilliant unknown people. In the future, when she grew up, her life would be as beautiful as a book, peopled by interesting and fascinating things, sweeter than music or love. -- Susan Johnson, The Broken Book

like the twig furniture she made, thinking it was going to make us rich, only she's shit with a hammer and nails and the stuff ended up being deadly. You were practically begging for a colonoscopy if you sat on it.

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

Men like Robin were never content, and men like Robin were all she would ever love, grasping, ambitious reflections of herself... He would begin to plot and scheme behind her back, building up a court faction... To emerge from that final conflict as the victor, it would be necessary to kill him. And she knew she was capable of doing it-- it was as simple as that.

When lovers play for kingdoms desire is not enough.

Limited expectations yield only limited results.

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

Wyatt Marshall hadn't come all the way to Russia only to fail.

banker, mayor of Frost—built their turreted

We're all stuck, a little bit, in the valley between who we want to be and who we are.

People treat you differently when they think you are too young to know what you want.

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go. —FRANZ WERFEL

It's funny how just having an unobstructed view of the possible future can make you think you're capable of achieving anything.

Dream of sweet tomorrows.

I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that he was only an extreme, not an aberration - that most people in some way or another do strive for something exceptional, something to pursue, even at their peril, rather than abide an ordinary life.

Stearns Baker, one of the wealthiest women in

Do you wake up one day and say "hey honey, let's have a baby goat and guava jam business"?

The message couldn't have been clearer: women may rise to the top, but they must seem as though they don't care whether they win or lose. Nice girls care only about being nice. They win only by accident or by someone else's efforts.

We all want to be rich for free.

Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you make it happen through sheer force of will.

Albert of Wallenstein] loved war. He was very tall and skeletally thin, usually dressed in sinister black, with a single streak of red. "[He is] unmerciful," wrote the astronomer Johannes Kepler, describing Wallenstein, "devoted only to himself and his desires...covetous, deceitful...usually silent, often violent.