Quotes About Ambition

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition

It is so easy to coast!

Your words are always in pursuit of some kind of kingdom.

All citizens do have a measure of control, at least in democracies where their votes are counted, of how they belong to their nations. Perhaps they will have more confidence in unconventional choices if they see that each nation's founders were disobedient and unpredictable, men and women of imagination and ambition. The steel of every national monument was once molten.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you're the boss. Or they won't. Who cares? Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.

Che cosa vuoi essere da grande? - si domanda da solo. Ci pensa un attimo e si risponde: - Vivo.

La mobilità sociale ha aperto a tutti la possibilità di aspirare a qualsiasi cosa, ma con ciò nessuno è più "predestinato" a nulla. È forse per questo che la gente è sempre più disorientata e incerta sul senso della propria vita.

There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.

Floyd Patterson grew up there, right?

It led to the unrelenting hunger of hearts, to lustful, searching eyes, and creeping, confident hands, to souls who believed that what they could touch they could own.

I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

I want to tell her that it's like flying with paper wings—that when you're a child, it seems possible—but when you grow up it just sounds doomed for failure.

it's tempting to start universities and build hospitals when you want to put a little gloss on your life as one of the greatest thieves in American history.

You're gonna turn me into one of those fat, useless, contented cats," Binx said.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, "A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

Jim Acheson, our designer, told me I looked like his Auntie Wyn and I have never forgotten it. I wondered if it was the way I walked or wore my hat, but Jim just said that I had some indefinable air of an aunt. It was then I began to hope that one day I might play Lady Bracknell.

The only imperfection in life then was that we didn't really have much money.

It wasn't often that you got to see a man whose dreams were literally about to come true, but then the lights went down, and I couldn't see him anymore.

opinion she was being 'maliciously' depicted by her discarded friend 'as a conniving social climber who had her sights on snagging a prince ever since she was in high school.'361 Priddy's assessment