Quotes About Ambition

Money may not be everything, but it's a pretty good cure for poverty.

Compreendo que o sonho de pobre é sonhar, apenas sonhar.

Rose once jotted down a quotation she attributed to her mother: "I don't know which is more heartbreaking, a dream un[ful]filled or a dream realized.

So the good news is, I know exactly what I want." "You do?" I say and I hope you'll ask me to eat you out in the bathroom at Starbuck's.

bBecause he simply doesn't see his dreams in detail, the kind of details that drive a person to pack their shit, to move.

She says New York was like Sesame Street for grown-ups, everyone has big hearts and you can be anything you wanna be.

You envy her. How come she doesn't have the weight of ambition? You pity her. How come she has no ambition?

Making It in Hollywood is the most disgusting phrase in the English language. It's more disturbing than prolific serial killer and rare terminal illness.

Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?

One step at a time, Jonathan moved towards his destiny.

Surrounded outdoors by the untamed, natural beauty of the jardin anglais, and indoors by the charming floral woodwork that adorned the villa's walls, the Trianon ladies' "professed ambition was to resemble wildflowers.

I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

You are whatever and whoever your self-confidence allows you to be

What one remembers is, I think, a clue to what one wants to be.

fine enough, but getting there is no pleasure." She stood with her hands

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

And Your modest ambition is to be a good housekeeper, isn't it?" "Well, yes, Papa; but not only that. I was thinking about it afterward by myself, and I think housekeeping is a the practical part of it - and that's a good big part too - but What I really want to be is a lovely, good, womanly woman, like Aunt Alice, you know.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

The thing about having it all is, it should include having the ability to have it all. Maybe there are some people who know how to have it all. They're probably off in a group somewhere, laughing at those of us who have it all but don't know how to.

the last thing I thought I wanted to do was go into show business, a fickle occupation that doled out a sense of uneasiness and humiliation like tepid snacks at movie screenings.