Quotes About Ambition

Don't just stand there; make something happen.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

for they was never a young man yet who don't want to go out and right a wrong, or kill a man, or have to do something to earn his right to what is there for the taking, all along. Only he don't think he can ask, nor take, without earning it. Without no pain. Oftener than not, a young man's a regular fool.

What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world. Now, think about this. You could walk across the street against a traffic light and get a summons for jaywalking, but you could walk up to a police officer and say "I want to rule the world," and there's nothing he can do about it, that is not a crime. Anybody can want to rule the world. So, even though he was the Fantastic Four's greatest menace, in my mind, he was never a criminal!

Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.

Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up

The blackest murder is the killing of the Soul's aspirations!

They would say anything, because they have dreamed this dream too long to be denied.

Ballantyne made the Big Jump, he and the men with him. They did the biggest thin men have ever done. They reached out and touched the stars. And you tried to hide it, to cover it up, to rob them even of the glory they had coming.

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that ' but not realizing what that was.

Later when we became friends she told me that being a viper was lucrative.

Born to lose. Live to win.

I left the Rocking Vicars, thinking I was going to be a star in my own right immediately. Everything was going to be wonderful and huge women would get a hold of me and do things to me with raw carrots – you know, shit like that. Of course, it didn't happen quite that way.

You can't have everything -- where would you put it?

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

You're just jealous of me because I'm a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.

Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.

The siblings wished that if Mr. Poe were really jealous of them he would attend Prufrock Preparatory School himself, and they could work at the bank.