Quotes About Ambition

The only reason I enter an event is to win. It's not to make the cut or finish top 10 or even second. It's to win the event.

Why would you want to go up there, when people are dying to get down here?

Did you ever to think, maybe your not too big? Maybe this town's just to small? - Big Fish

One of the more perverse parts of D.C. culture is that many inhabitants turn their weddings into these quasi-networking events, either out of ambition or a lack of real-life friends or both.

But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was possible in the world, the things she had always wanted for herself and could not name and called happiness because there was no other word.

We'll find new stuff to want.

Hoping is what people do when they're too lazy to do anything else. People

For the first time in my life I know what I want and I have what it takes to get me there. If you never experienced that I feel sorry for you. But it wasn't always like this. I have been through fire to get here. I seen things and done things and had shit done to me you couldn't barely credit. So be happy for me. And for fucksake don't get in my way.

She wants to be something creative,' he murmured. 'It's not something to want. It's something you have. It's a curse. One she doesn't have.

You need some ambition. What big ambition did you have, apart from wantin to be a hero? Nothin. I just wanted to be a good man. That's all I want.

All beings begin their lives with hopes and aspirations. Among these aspirations is the desire that there will be a straight path to those goals. It is seldom so. Perhaps never.

What about you, Commander? Why do *you* seek higher rank?' It was a question many had asked over the years. Thrawn had asked it of himself. The answer never seemed to satisfy the questioner. 'Because there are problems that must be solved. Some cannot be solved by anyone except me.

Always someone lower.

It's meaningless to just live, it's meaningless to just fight, cause i wanna win and survive !!!!

It's meaningless to just live. It's meaningless to just fight. I want to win.

No one has ever stood atop the heavens before. Not you…or I…or even the gods. But the unbearable vacancy of heaven's throne ends now. From now on…I will stand at the top.

No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on... I will be sitting on it

You could say that all my characters are reflections of myself, in that I share their wish to count for something, and their utmost confusion as to how this is supposed to be done.

Want! You must want something. What do you want?

We're never too old for dreams.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

What we think we lack determines what we will become in life.

When the first force, social feeling and community expectation, is ignored or affronted, the person concerned will reveal certain aggressive character traits: vanity, ambition, envy, jealousy, playing God, or greed; or nonaggressive traits: withdrawal, anxiety, timidity, or absence of social graces. When any of these forces gains the upper hand, it is usually because of deep-seated feelings of inadequacy. Yet the forces also create an intensity or tension that can give tremendous energy.

Clifford Rutledge II was the perfect diplomat. He believed in little beyond his own career, some vague notions of international amity, and his personal ability to make it come about and to avoid war through the sheer force of his brilliance.