Quotes About Ambition

Jewish dropout: a boy who didn't get his Ph.D. —ANON

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit

His law firm's shining brass ERICSSON, WEYMOUTH AND ROTH sign greeted him outside the elevator on the sixty-first floor. At twenty-nine, he'd been the youngest to ever make partner. There was a time he'd wanted, and probably could have gotten, the name Mooney added to that sign.

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James Patterson

Dreams die hard. And sometimes they don't have to die at all.

We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have.

I feel the shadow of wings across my face, Icarus wings, faltering in my flight.

Greatly begin! though thou hast time But for a line, be that sublime -- Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

It's just that it's hard to believe in greatness...

His world was small, an illiterate county seat, a backward state, though from it he fashioned something greater, far greater perhaps than he ever knew. A writer cannot really grasp what he has written. It is not like a building or a sculpture; it cannot be seen whole. It is only a kind of smoke seized and printed on a page.

Gevoel van moed. Groot verlangen verder te leven.

The best way to predict the future is to create it. You do that by study.

Get a PHD No, not a doctoral degree. I mean a PHD attitude: Poor, Hungry and Driven.

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people. – Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

There is one story question per novella, usually in the form: Will X get Y?

Today I resolve to take writing seriously, to keep going and never stop, to learn everything I can and make it as a writer.

Fionn went [...] to carve a name for himself that will live while Time has an ear and knows an Irishman

Dream As a Human and Feel Free or Fly Like a Bird

When ambition outstrips ability, that is always a recipe for disaster.

fathers who regularly do household chores, according to a University of British Columbia study, have daughters who are more likely to aspire to less stereotypically feminine careers, instead voicing an ambition to be an astronaut, professional soccer player, or geologist. When girls see fathers pulling their own weight, they receive a direct message that they are not—and should not be—destined to shoulder all the tedious work by themselves.

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

Success supposes endeavour.