Quotes About Ambition

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

It costs to have a dream, but it costs too much to remember only the price.

Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.

Maybe when you give up your dreams, you find out that there's more to life than dreaming.

She had never expected anything special to just happen to her. Her plan for life was to get out there and make special things happen, which was a much more sensible plan from a probability point of view.

Sure, you can live out your dreams, but it'll only turn you into a monster.

He would lose whatever he had to lose, if that's what it took to win.

He was going to be a motherfucking Magician.

Onward and upward.

And on and on, and it all sounded completely, horribly plausible. Any one of a thousand options promised - basically guaranteed - a rich, fulfilling, challenging future for him. So why did Quentin feel like he was looking around frantically for another way out? Why was he still waiting for some grand adventure to come and find him? The professors Quentin talked to about it didn't seem concerned at all. They didn't get what the problem was. What should he do? Why, anything he wanted to!

I got my heart's desire, he thought, and there my troubles began. "We

Sure, you can live out your dreams, but it'll only turn you into a monster. Better to stay home and do card tricks in your bedroom instead.

He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.

Glory has its price," Penny said. "Did you not know that, before you sought it?

The room filled with a collective rustling of paper, like a flock of birds taking off. Heads bowed in unison. Quentin recognized this motion. It was the motion of a bunch of high-powered type-A test killers getting down to their bloody work. That was all right. He was one of them.

We have our whole lives ahead of us and all I want to do is take a nap.

I got my hearts desire, he thought, and there my troubles began.

It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

Don't be afraid to start at the bottom of the ladder. And have the courage to climb to the top.

Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -- which is what I think it does mean -- then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

find the field that interests you the most, work with the biggest and richest player willing to partner with you, and then do everything you can to help that big, rich partner succeed.

The world needs many more dreamers. Unreasonable souls who fight the urge to be ordinary.

I think I'm competitive. Competition fuels me. The urge to win. I want to win; I want the ball in my hands when it really counts. I want to be the best I can be. I want to come in every day and do everything I can to be the best that I can.

As long as I've got that urge and that fight and fire inside of me I'll continue and records will come and records will be broken. But the day I don't feel that kind of stuff I'm happy to walk away.