Quotes About Ambition

The land of opportunity seized and given to someone else.

Food, love, mother and career: the four basic guilt groups.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

You have to go for it. For the rest of us.

Just because women can bear children doesn't mean they're unable to harbour the same sort of career ambitions as a man.

So we blame ourselves for being too outspoken or too proud or too ambitious.

What is it you really want?" Emily said. "Because if what you want is the big career, then you need to stick with that—and stop torturing the person who can't or won't follow. I speak from some experience on that.

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

But every time I had the opportunity, I lacked the will.

Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage? I read on, and I find myself smiling at that sound-fleshed young girl, her daring and her folly and her many fears.

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence." ? Geraldine Brooks, March

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

It wasn't bad, but it could not be great.

The translucent skin rattled softly in the hot wind. Maybe this season was his shedding. He closed his sore hand around another bole and stuffed it in his sack. He resolved that he would make it so. He would leave the boy behind, discarded in the dust of this damnable field. He didn't know how, but he had to find a way. He would go on in the world as a man.

If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, thereÂ's nothing you canÂ't accomplish.

The moment a child answers the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' he is halfway to being an adult.

we'll have weather control by 2015,

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Si ha de haber paz, la paz tendrá que ser activa, los motivos de la lucha han de mantenerse vivos para darle empleo a la ambición del hombre, a su ingenio, a su espíritu inestable.

When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich.