Quotes About Ambition

Mi sono sempre piaciute le gambe. E' stata la prima cosa che ho visto quando sono nato. Ma allora stavo cercando di uscire. Da quel momento in poi ho sempre tentato di andare nell'altra direzione, ma con fortuna piuttosto scarsa.

My only ambition is not to be anything at all; it seems the most sensible thing.

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

No estoy metido en ninguna competición con nadie, ni pienso en la inmortalidad; me importa un carajo todo eso. Es la ACCIÓN mientras estás vivo.

For a man who had wanted to be happy he looked like a man who had lost two pawns in the early rounds of a chess match without gaining an advantage.

Kad sam se našao vani, odlu?no sam krenuo kroz smog. O?i su mi bile plave, cipele stare i nitko me nije volio. Ali me ?ekalo puno posla.

My contest is only with myself: to do it right, with power and force and delight and gamble. Otherwise, forget it.

You can't blame a man for wanting to better himself.

People don't need love. What they need is success in form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

He had been an army officer in Germany and had come to America when he heard that the streets were paved with gold. They weren't, so he became the head of a construction firm.

There we were, a shipping clerk and a janitor discussing theories in aesthetics while all about us men drawing 10 times our salaries were lost out on the limb reaching for rotten fruit. What does this say for the American way of life?

Give a man four walls long enough and it is possible for him to own the world.

I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.

Yeah, well, I wanted to be a screenwriter, and guess what? I am one. That's the other tragedy in life.

Needing and getting don't seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

sitting in front of the Golden Gate made me think that if we, meaning our culture, could make this bridge-sculpture right now, bad off and broke as we were, then surely we could do almost anything, and we could do it gracefully, powerfully, beautifully, and functionally.

Greatness? I have tasted that cup within the last twelve months; do I not know that it is sweet in the mouth, but bitter in the belly?

is it not written, that those who make haste to be rich, pierce themselves through with many sorrows?

If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling.

You may have had big-time plans in your life-major league dreams that haven't panned out. You were going to write a best-selling book, but the opportunities just haven't come along. Are you willing to write for your church newsletter?

There's always some idiot who thinks that after the revolution they'll be the one sitting on top of the hill of corpses, dining on caviar served out of a bowl made of a chromed baby's skull.

A mother's love— Fuck love, Amber snarls, she wants power.

This is a woman who models herself on Margaret Thatcher, only without the warmth and compassion.

There isn't very much of the little boy left in Oscar; he didn't get to his position without being able to keep it under very tight control.