Quotes About Ambition

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

He turned being a Big Loser into a perfect triumph by managing to lose the presidency in a way bigger and more original than anyone else had ever lost it before.

plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope away. Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

Se aprendesse qualquer coisa, necessitaria aprender mais, e nunca ficaria satisfeito.

Retirou-se. A humilhação atenuou-se pouco a pouco e morreu. Precisava entrar em casa, jantar, dormir. E precisava crescer, ficar tão grande como Fabiano, matar cabras a mão de pilão, trazer uma faca de ponta à cintura. Ia crescer, espichar-se numa cama de varas, fumar cigarros de palha, calçar sapatos de couro cru.

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

You're right, Mal, you and Erebus both. My father made me for immortality and the galaxy should know of me. Ten thousand years from now I want my name to be known all across the heavens." - Warmaster Horus

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

Grant Barrett

You can't teach hungry, my dad always reminded me. Either you are or you aren't.

Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Without love and a dream it would never come true...

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.

The only way up is up.

One thing we can easily predict is that anything worth accomplishing will take time, and the bigger our goals are, the more time they will take.

IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

parvenus, relied on money of questionable antecedents

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

We shall pursue our dreams "until [we] reach[…] it. Or fail[…] trying.

But what you're trying to do is much more difficult than climbing K2

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.