Quotes About Ambition

He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had everything we wanted.

You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently.

Kyle want to be a rockstar. I think hes working the one-name thing. Like Rihanna." "I have no idea what you're talking about.

and don't start your own line of glitter and try to sell it at Sephora.

If I can not move heaven I shall raise Hell.

In case you were wondering, it is preferable to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven—I've done both.

That ones yours,huh?"he asked,pointing to 3A."How come it just says 'Kyle'?Doesnt he have a last name?" "Kyle wants to be a rock star,"Simon said,heading down the stairs."I think his working the one-name thing.Like Rihanna.

I think sometimes it's too hard to believe in yourself. You just do the things you're not sure you can do. You just act, in spite of not being certain. I don't believe I can change the world--it sounds stupid to even talk about it--but I'm going to try.

One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.

It really was getting difficult to be wonderful.

When you want something very much, you are willing to accept the shadow of that thing. Even if it is just a shadow.

I'll never pause again, never stand still, till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, or fortune given me measure of revenge.'

But I think you're letting your fear get in the way of what you really want because what you really want is what you're afraid of.

You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.

Be you dust; or be you star To be what you must Just reach out for what you are

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

Joe and the Gladiator The Nipper Rory's Fortune Our John Willie Mrs. Flannagan's Trumpet Go tell It To Mrs Golightly Lanky Jones Bill and The Mary Ann Shaughnessy AUTOBIOGRAPHY Our Kate Let Me Make Myself Plain Plainer Still The Black Candle Bridget Deane Mordaunt was a woman of some consequence in her own part of the world.

Sean's our boy, big into computer games and football, wants to help the Redskins build a dynasty, though he doesn't really know what that means.

I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

Because I have dreams and in those dreams I see the stars

He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful as light. All the birds brought him feathers. Even the eagle. Even the swan.

We forbid growth and therefore decay. Ambition, and therefore despair. Because each is only the warped relection of the other.

Sapphique strapped the wings to his arms and flew, over oceans and plains, over glass cities and mountains of gold. Animals fled; people pointed up. He flew so far, he saw the sky above him and the sky said, "Turn back, my son, for you have climbed too high." Sapphique laughed, as he rarely did. "Not this time. This time I beat on you until you open." But Incarceron was angered, and struck him down.

All my life I've plotted and planned, been obsessed with those things. And now you've achieved them. You are not satisfied. He nodded. Life is a series of stairs of which we climb, Claudia... your horizons have moved.