Quotes About Ambition

Those who fly the highest see the furthest

Desde cuándo la seguridad ha sido tu ambición, Dickie? Huir de lo seguro: esa es la única manera de lograr que tu última palabra sea «¡Sí!»

En yüksekten uçan mart? en uza?? görendir

Ne kadar ehil ve lay?k olursan?z olun, kendiniz için o hayali kurmad?kça ve onu gerçekleÅŸtirmenize izin vermedikçe asla daha iyi bir hayata ulaÅŸamazs?n?z.

Hayalleri paramparça eden tek ÅŸey, ödün vermektir.

Richard Bachman

Richard Bachman

Richard Bachman

Richard Bachman

You sons-of-bitches all have bicycles! he said, I'll have a bicycle someday!

I can do just about anything if I choose to make it a high enough priority and devote enough time, money, and energy to it.

What do you want? Let's just start with the basics. Write down anything that you want in your life. These can be big or small things.

What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?

He continued to believe that, like everything else in his life, it would be righted by the sheer force of his will

Billy Gould has always felt if something was worth doing, it was worth doing badly. Worry about doing it too well, he believed, & you may well be crippled by your ambition

He was now a surgeon, and he assumed he would marry Ella, and though they had never spoken about it, he knew she did too. He thought that marrying Ella was another thing like completing his medical degree, receiving his commission, another step up, along, onwards. Ever since Tom's cave, where he had recognised the power of reading, every step forward for Dorrigo had been like that.

In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.

Unbridled commerce isn't generally pretty, but it's always forward-thinking.

I do not hold to the old belief that professors like writers because they can see us fail in a grander and sillier and therefore more unequivocal way than they have. On the contrary, they like to see someone trying, giving it all up to set a permanent mark.

You thought perhaps you would drink it away, the plague? Was that the plan? I thought perhaps I'd try to die drunk. Such ambition. And this from a dragon-slayer.

think, Raquel, you'd cut the laugh out of a toddler's throat with a blunt scalpel if you thought you could sell it for cab fare.

The most important thing now, as fast as conditions are changing, is that no Negro tolerate any ceiling on his ambitions or imagination. Good luck and don't have any doubts; you haven't time for such foolishness.

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. EUGÈNE DELACROIX