Quotes About Ambition

On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

she knew there were far more important things in life than training thoroughbreds and winning races. Even if a part of her still felt as if every moment of her life had been preparing her to do just that.

i have no desire to spend my life dancing backward.

if you don't have a destination, you'll never go anywhere.

In her early twenties, she'd had so many dreams of how her life would go, and all of them had seemed possible. When you're just starting out, potential paths radiate from you like the rays of a sun and all seem yours for the taking. But the minute you make your first choice – of career, or mate – you start shutting off all the others.

It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste your energy thinking about it. What matters is where you're going. And that, mate, is something you can control.

Today Henry would be running a banana republic with serious border issues and a dodgy nuclear-weapons program.

The band was no Led Zeppelin, but they had smart lyrics, a great drummer and that reckless shine that bands did have, back then, when no one had anything to lose and the fact that you didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of making it big didn't matter, because throwing your whole heart into this band was the only thing that stopped you being just another futureless dole bunny moping in his bedsit. It gave them something: a drop of magic.

It was sort of like, you know Sean Callaghan, Sean from the dig? He used to be in this band only they broke up, and he's always talking about 'Oh, when we get the band back together, when we make it big…' And, I mean, he knows they're never gonna do it, but talking about it makes him feel better." "We've all been in that band," Cassie said, smiling.

The impulse to win is a valuable thing, right up until you let it make you into a loser.

It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste energy thinking about it. what matters is where you are going.

ready to start pushing. What-if-maybe crap is for weak people. It belongs to the ones who don't have the strength to make actual situations go their way, so they have to hide away in daydreams where they can play at controlling what comes next. And that makes them even weaker.

All that St. Kilda's gloss, that walk through old oak doors like you belong, effortless: I wanted that. I wanted to lick it off my banged-up fists along with my enemy's blood. This

They're all used up by scrabbling to keep their footing; they don't have room to aim for anything bigger or farther than staying one jump ahead of bad things and snatching the occasional treat along the way. He

They're all used up by scrabbling to keep their footing; they don't have room to aim for anything bigger or farther than staying one jump ahead of bad things and snatching the occasional treat along the way.

You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.

That's the difference between us and white folks, she told herself. They don't stop to say "I can't" or "Should I," they just do.

Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

What are you working on?" Chris had asked. "Nothing," Zoe replied, her fingers freezing on the keyboard.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

more success tattooing a soap bubble

I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins I would love to work with Meryl Streep I would love to work with DeNiro I would love to work with Johnny Depp I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.

If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs. – Tony Gaskins

in a place like China. People rush ahead of you; they have no time to look back.