Quotes About Ambition

I don't like limits. Being told what is possible. By man or nature. Just like you." "No," Evan said. "You want to be everything. I want to be one thing well.

Envision someone else, someone better than you. Stronger. Smarter. Tougher. Then do what that guy would do.

The dream is never the dream. It's a bunch of compromises and, if you're lucky, a few decent people now and then.

What had he hoped for back then? What kind of future had he dreamed of when he'd stared up at the lightning-fork crack in the ceiling?

Follow your dreams, they say. But what no one ever tells you is what you have to give up in the process. The sacrifices. The thousand ways your life can go to hell while you keep your eyes on the horizon, waiting for that sun to rise. From 'Or She Dies'.

The ones that test the limits sometimes do the most amazing things in life. That's what I've always thought.

This is why we can't have nice things: bears chase the bulls while China shops. Ah, unbearable lightness of bling! Everyone waits for one-eyed kings. The sharpest corners wait for shins. This is why we can't have nice things.

The soul of alpinism is to travel light and fast through a dangerous landscape in pursuit of a personal star. That is ascent.

Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please...It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit–retire!

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does

My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.

In verità io sono uno studente invecchiato che ambisce alla conoscenza e alla solitudine, e conduco vita esemplare e sedentaria in un'atmosfera libresca e claustrale

Now that I had become a man (with a leaky fountain pen to prove it), I was ready to take on the world.

I know that I am honest and sincere in my desire to do well; but the question is whether I know enough to accomplish what I desire.