Quotes About Ambition

To fail spectacularly is a loser's paradise.

Money is a form of alchemy, [...] it turns kind, normal people into greed-mongers, intent only on acquisitiveness.

Everyone needs dreams,' she said simply. 'If you don't have them, they can't come true.

We're all something we're not,' he said. 'Every one of us is stuck between the person we want to be and the person we can be. And there doesn't have to be a why. All things have to do is feel right.

What are you doing? I'm trying - You are not, my girl. There are two sort of people in this world, doers and tryers. You are the latter and I'm trying to make you the former. Now concentrate, girl!

There are two sorts of people in this world, doers and tryers. You are the latter and I am trying to make you the former.

Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won't, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope

Éramos brutalmente ambiciosos. Aspirávamos ao fracasso. Mas não a um fracasso qualquer, sem quê nem pra quê: aspirávamos a um fracasso total, radical e absoluto. Era nosso modo de aspirar ao sucesso.

Lo único que sé es que los políticos no son ni de derechas ni de izquierdas: son sólo políticos. Lo único que les interesa es el poder.

the essence of guerrilla marketing—the soul and the spirit of guerrilla marketing—is small business: companies with big dreams but tiny budgets.

You are now required to know what you want and where to get it. You are in charge of manufacturing your own luck.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

Travis looked up. He stared at the recorder and then he looked at Jack. "Everyone said you were just a small-time security company," he said. "I am a small-time security company," Jack said. "But I've got aspirations.

resist. Six months from now she would have enough saved

Determination was a superpower, but like any power, it could be used for bad ends.

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Success had put me on the wrong track and I did not know that there is a kind of success worse than failure, and a kind of failure worth all the success in the world. Neither did I know that the distant friendship of Rainer Maria Rilke would one day console me for having seen his lamp burn without knowing that it was signalling me to go and singe my wings against its flame.

Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs...in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough, not getting this thing, this chance, which she had only just discovered she wanted very badly.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to get a living.

When such single minded strength of will and purpose is directed to reach its goal, no boundary can resist.

The path to success is a thorny one, and the way is steep. There are many pitfalls. It is a fool who does not take advantage of a helping hand when it is offered.

all greatness must first take its shape in dreams.

I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.