Quotes About Ambition

her biggest problem lay in the struggling to live up to expectations. Including her own.

Fame all depends on the ground you're standing on...

How can I get to be you when I grow up? Why, child, you just learn how to use your mean. We all got it, but not everybody knows how to use it constructive like.

things without any more information than what you've given me.

mood. "I could probably be

tailor-made a job I'd like more.

Avery pushed to her feet. "I'll

Nora Roberts

her data and bring up her screen

he'd pack up the rest of his clothes, his workout gear. He'd get serious about

did. That was something a

even high," she said with a roll

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition Ã¢â'¬Â¦ —SAMUEL JOHNSON The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. —WILLA CATHER

As long as she considered herself a work in progress, she wouldn't stop trying to learn, to become, to make more of herself.

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.

Norman L. Geisler

it is natural for man to try to attain power without recovering grace...(3)

She did not want the pleasurable and comfortable mediocrity in which she now wallowed to be the sum of her life.

He was going to take in, possess the whole of the world. Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi? Fuck off. He wanted more.

Perry wanted to be the villain, probably for strategic reasons. But it didn't take. He wasn't smart enough; he probably didn't even know how "Ayn" was pronounced.

Sampson wanted to be "a seven-foot-four guard." He was too pretty to be a soldier. Against the profoundly overmatched Chaminade, he took just nine shots and let his unbeatable team lose to a bunch of beach bum nobodies. He was the greatest, but he wasn't that great.

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

The future is just wasted on some people.