Quotes About Ambition

Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.

I started out as a duo with Mis-Teeq's Sabrina Washington, and we worked for four or five years before signing a record deal. I had no money, and I was taking part-time jobs just to earn the train fare to get to rehearsals.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

The flesh is but a sack of goo, a feast for worms to delve into. Remember, mortal, as you strive, that you, ambitious goo, must also die.

Charles Bukowski's Factotum

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

Could you sharpen it to a sword-point, let it carve the ground behind you as you run?

Sometimes you think you know what you want, she said, hugging her children, until you see how much more you can have.

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

That a dream is not reason to evacuate.

For together with those who themselves being normal, had long put intellects above bodies, were writers, painters, musicians and scholars, men and women who, set apart from their birth, had determined to hack out a niche in existence.

Nothing appears to succeed like success in a world that is principally made up of failure.

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing, gucci little piggy

When I dreamed about flying, it was as a skill I needed to regain.

But Guidobaldo scoffed at his qualms "Do you account my niece a peasant girl?" he asked. "Would you have her smirk and squirm at every piece of flattery you utter? So that she weds Your Highness what shall the rest signify?" "I would that she loved me a little," complained Gian Maria foolishly. Guidobaldo looked him over with an eye that smiled inscrutably, and it may have crossed his mind that this coarse white-faced Duke was too ambitious.

Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' I realized then where the problem lay. My students, and so many of our young people today, want a good life. They love (even if they don't always appreciate) liberty. They all want to be happy. But I realized that day that my class was a microcosm of what is wrong with some any of nation's young people. What happened to pursuit? We aren't handed happiness. We're given an opportunity to pursue it.

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.

Die Armut erstickt unsere Träume, noch bevor sie zu Ende geträumt sind.

it is not because of the benevolence of the baker that we eat fresh bread every morning but because of his desire to make money.

the willingness to be ruthless helps innovation.

The eventual aim was to build a 4,000-acre high-tech park, called Alpha Technopolis, to rival Taiwan's famous Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park. The vision was grand, perhaps overly so.

Let not it be said that you failed,because you never tried. Believe in yourself and your dreams you will pursue..The choice is yours and it's all up to you,to just do..