Quotes About Ambition

if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Algumas pessoas querem o simples, o banal e o tranquilo. Isso não faz com que as pessoas que querem o complicado, o extraordinário e o emocionante sejam gananciosas ou egoístas. Querer é querer, qualquer que seja o sonho.

Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities and expectations he had no desire to face.

Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I'll just shake this tree, and if I shake it long enough that pretty red apple will plop right into my hand. Never occurs to them that they might have to climb the damn tree, fall out a couple times, get some scrapes and bruises before they get to that apple. Because if the apple's worth wanting, it's worth risking a broken neck.

He does as he pleases and no more. He's the most successful man I know.

Dreams were essential, creativity a must, but details, sweat, and a business plan made dreams a reality.

If you don't go after what you want, you will never have it; If you don't ask, the answer is always no; If you don't step forward, you are always in the same place.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

Rule number one was confidence. Rule number two was tenacity.

I'm wondering, if there was something you wanted, had wanted for some time, what would you do about it?" "If I've wanted it, why don't I have it?" "Because you haven't made any real effort to get it as yet." "And why haven't I?" He arched his sandy brows. "Am I slow or just stupid?" Brenna thought it over, decided he couldn't know he'd just insulted his firstborn.

Do you think you can have everything you want just by yelling louder, just by being stronger?

Welcome to my dungeon. It's not much, Linc said as he cleaned off a chair for her. But… it's not much. He dumped the files and books on the floor. The nice thing about starting at the bottom is, you can't get any lower. If I'm a good boy, I'll get my own stapler

Maybe this wasn't the road she'd expected to take, all those years ago when she was a young girl who imagined having pretty things and a quiet life that she would earn by using her brain. But it was the road she'd taken, and she was making it the right road.

A determined man could build one hell of a blaze from one good spark.

Girl, if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

He worked for two hours, perfecting the storyline-the situation, the setup, the punchline.After changing her tire and practicing macho lines to impress her, Macintosh ended up with five dollars, a stutter, and soaked shoes as Veronica zoomed out of his life.

New York had saved him, in a very real way. It had pushed and prodded him with its impatient and sharp fingers, reminding him on a daily basis during that jittery first year that it didn't really give a goddamn whether he sank or swam. He liked its selfishness and its generosity and its propensity for flipping the bird to the rest of the world.

I'm a mild disappointment to them, which is worse somehow than being a serious disappointment. So I'm working hard not to be any kind of disappointment to myself." She

Don't let anything stop you from going where you need to go, from doing what you need to do. Make your mark on the world, and make it deep so it lasts.

Pitam se ako postoji nešto što želiš,želiš to ve? neko vrijeme,što bi poduzeo?Ako to želim,zašto to nemam?Zato što do sada baš nisi uložio napor da to dobiješ.A zašto nisam?Jesam li spor ili samo glup?

to the woman

If she'd had enough thread, she could've crocheted the Taj Mahal.

Dreams aren't doing. Awake and take, or sleep on and show his sacrifice means nothing to you.

some brains. The second was that I take this opportunity, this gift, and make something of myself. I guess I looked like a balloon that had its air pricked out, because she laughed and laughed, and she gave me a slap on the arm. She told me if I needed to give her something, if I needed to do that to be happy, she'd like a pair of red shoes with heels and open toes. Size nine. Wouldn't she be some sight going to church Sundays in those red shoes?