Quotes About Ambition

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

Getting fired,' Tyler says, 'is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.

Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

So you're the winner of this game show, Seth says, and you get a choice between a five-piece living room set from Broyhill, suggested retail price three thousand dollars— or—a ten-day trip to the old world charm of Europe. Most people, Seth says, would take the living room set. It's just that people want something to show for their effort, Seth says. Like the pharaohs and their pyramids.

Set yourself a goal so difficult that death will seem like a welcome reprieve.

Aim low and you won't be disappointed.

If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

What they don't teach you in art school is never, ever to tell people you wanted to be an artist. Just so you know, for the rest of your life, people will torture you by saying how you used to love to draw when you were young. You used to love to paint. A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.

Her goals had been the goals of radical women a century ago: to become a lawyer . . . to compete toe-to-toe with men. But like any second-hand goal, it felt like a burden. It had already been fulfilled ten million times over by other women. Penny wanted a dream of her own, but she had no idea how that dream would look.

We were all so wor­ried about our worst fears, squeez­ing frogs, eat­ing worms, poi­sons, as­bestos, we nev­er con­sid­ered how bor­ing life would be even if we suc­ceed­ed and got a good job.

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact," Tyler said. So don't fuck with us.

Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison. My taste for power continues to grow, as does my ability to accrue it.

May I never be complete May I never be content May I never be perfect

The slogan for America is 'Not Good Enough'. Nothing's ever fast enough. Nothing's big enough. We're never satisfied. We're always improving…

The reason boys desire so desperately to kiss girls is because, with each kiss, the activity makes the boy's wanger grow larger. The more girls a boy can kiss, the larger a wanger he'll eventually possess, and the boys boasting the largest are awarded the best-paying, highest-status jobs. Really, it's all very simple.

this isn't so much romance as it is opportunity [victor mancini]

Getting fired," Tyler says, is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.