Quotes About Ambition

If the dream chose the dreamer, then his had chosen poorly. It needed someone far more daring than he." Strange the Dreamer

Wishes don't just come true. They're only the target you paint around what you want. You

Small! I'm mot going to be small anymore. I'm going to be a dragon, with wings like lacquer fans and jets of fire breath for roasting up goose suppers midair!" Pippin spread out her arms, imagining them wings. Why not? she asked herself.

like quills, dreams can mark you, dreams can stripe your back.

Akhir-akhir ini Hadi Mintarso tampak kuyu dan lesu seperti ban kempes, apalagi semenjak kalah nyaleg. Badannya pun semakin ciut, seolah politik semacam pil diet ajaib yang baru terbukti ampuh jika kita kalah sebelum berlaga.

Anything in life is possible if you make it happen.

There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.

Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams--what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred--I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then, fifteen years later, I started to make real money.

I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.

She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption.

Who would one rather be? The one who desires, or the object of desire? One's answer to this question might determine if he is meant to be a poet or something else entirely.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.

We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

What happens to a dream deferred?

All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.

I am dramatic," said Will. "If i had not been a Shadowhunter, i would have had a future on the stage.