Quotes About Ambition

He's got big dreams like you can't believe

I wish I had 11 hands with 55 fingers so I could paint and write and fuck and feed and grab grab grab everything. I. Want. It. All. It must be mine.

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Yet Wallace and other segregationists created an inflamed environment in which a confused but also ambitious man like Ray could think it was permissible, perhaps even noble, to murder King. The signals Ray was picking up enabled him to believe that society would smile on his crime. What

A stagnant navy," noted one maritime scholar, "was no place for a man on the make.

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

I thought my chances to make the Braves were better and that they were being fairer to me, paying me more money to play in a lower classification ... Besides, the Giants spelled my name "Arron" on their telegram.

The day I become content is the day I cease to be anything more than a man who hit home runs.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.

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You are a dreamer, and that is your misfortune.

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

Hanumant Deshmukh

Children at play, birds of prey," Lucien said, closing out his register, "and dogs may chase anything that moves. But in general, we are not pursued because we run; we run because we are pursued. Someone wanted something from this girl --love, money, her body, her mind. Find out what pursued your friend, and you find your friend.

That spring when I was sixteen, more than anything else in the world I wanted to be a success when I grew up. I did not know that there was any other way of being loved.

If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.

From "boyhood up," as Lincoln once confided to his old friend Ward Hill Lamon, "my ambition was to be President.

Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

But, darling, you're my world, my life." She kissed me. "And what will you do? You have no job—nothing. How will you live? I can't bear to think of you going back to those cheap little jobs. Here with me you are safe. I can look after you, protect you. I can give you the world—anything you want." I remembered something I had read. "What does it profit a man," I quoted, "if in gaining the world he loses his own soul?

A freelance gangster and thief" (as Herbert Asbury describes him in his classic work The Gangs of New York), Hicks embarked on his criminal career at the age

every obstacle should at first be put in the way of the aspiring artist, as it is only those you cannot discourage who are worth encouraging.