Quotes About Ambition

Don't mistake a lightbulb for the moon, and don't believe that the moon is useless unless we land on it.

The worst imaginable thing happens to our protagonists: they have a son who grows up to become Dennis Hopper. ("Giantess")

Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to.

The Germans are about to reach Stalingrad, and the gas chambers are heating up, but the Ya-Yas are still in high school, and the life of the porch still surrounds them. They are lazy together. This is comfort. This is joy. Just look at these four. Not one wears a watch. This porch time is not planned. Not penciled into a DayRunner . . .I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

How often on an expedition have I told myself, That's enough! and then a few weeks later when the effort, worry, and hardship were forgotten, I began dreaming about a new journey, planning a new climb. Pretty soon I'd be off again. And once again, it would be dangerous. I never intended to risk my neck, but I knew that if I were ever to stop dreaming or traveling I would be old. And that would drive me to despair.

I could claim that all my projects are altruistic, but I don't do that. All I'm saying is this: is it really a sacrilege to do the best you can, to express yourself, to do what I do?

Anyone wanting to reach the summit must lift his spirits to its heights

For me, success is not measured at the end of life. A successful life is what you have when you are doing things. There are moments when I overcome difficulties, and that's when I feel strong and fulfilled. My success, my life, was nothing more than turning ideas into reality.

To ameliorate & raise the standard of the workingmen to the bourgeois level, is perhaps to create a race of slaves content with their lot,-a cast of comfortable Pariahs.

Invest in the life you have to get the life you want

When you're motivated by fear, you will never feel satisfied

Humph. Like hell. James Whitehorn Honeycutt would simply have to find another way to merge Honeycutt Foods with Reedwater Snacks. Regardless of what her father thought, the merger wasn't worth her freedom, or her happiness. She wasn't some medieval bride to be bartered off like a herd of cattle and a milk goat, for pity's sake. She was a woman who wanted more, who wanted to

he wanted to win. And would do whatever it took. Here was a self-made man, filled with the most dangerous kind of confidence: he had done it before and believed he could do it gain. This gave him the air of a berserker, who says, If you're going to fight me, you better kill me. - p113

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

It's not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

You are never given a wish without what it takes to make it true.

An author is a writer who didn't give up.

Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however...

If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.

For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do, and that was to fly.