Quotes About Ambition

We know now that if the men give you anything, you get nothing. If we want it, we got to take it away from them.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

IS IT A SIN TO BE AVERAGE?

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things -- they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

Yeah, I feel sort of unfinished in New York, even though I spent so many years there. I think it's because I never got a chance to do any Broadway, or even off-Broadway. I would love to do that and I haven't given up on that.

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Thou wishest fame! ambition in thy soul Bids thee toil onward to the distant goal, And holds the dazzling prize before the view, Fought for by many; gained by ah, how few!

Dressed up sharply, Seyit kissed his mother's hand, stepped down the stairs and ventured forth to become a rich man. After he had left, Dirmit spread out her books on top of the sewing machine and started to study.

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

If I had books, if I could scrape together an education, I'd have a future, whether any man ever asked me to marry him or not.

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

My kid, her life. I want for her what she wants for herself.

los sueños, como todos sabemos, se sueñan dentro de nuestra cabeza, y se cumplen allí donde te encuentras. El truco es agarrarlos por la cola y no dejarlos ir, cueste lo que cueste. Por más bestias que se interpongan en tu camino.

Para eso sirven los sueños, ¿no? Para enseñarnos hasta donde podemos llegar.

Una pesadilla para lograr un sueño. El infierno para llegar al cielo prometido. Anabella

Who hit you in the butt with a saddle and told you you could ride?" a starter hissed before a race. "The same S.O.B. that hit you in the butt and told you you could start!" he shot back. Pollard had found the one place on earth that could hold his interest. He was broke, hungry, and, according to his sister Edie, "happy as heck.

Pete urged Louie to enter the Compton Open and try his legs at a longer distance. "If you stay with Norman Bright," he told Louie, "you make the Olympic team.

That to want to succeed is to fail

The point is, all my life I've hung back, never going after what I really wanted, trying to be content with settling for less. Meanwhile, life went on all around me, but I was never really a part of it.

This was the dawn of a new day, and a new Emma Dove. Never again was she going to sit by while life went on around her. Never again was she going to wait for fate to hand her what she wanted. From now on, she was going to reach out and grab her dreams and not let go. She had never been more scared in her life.

He's the sort of man who wants power. He doesn't have it, but he thinks he's entitled to it by birthright. He's incapable of earning what he wants, so he wants what he hasn't earned. The sort of man who, if he wants something, thinks it's all right to take it.

Never again was she going to sit by while life went on around her. Never again was she going to wait for fate to hand her what she wanted. From now on, she was going to reach out and grab her dreams and not let go.