Quotes About Ambition

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.

No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He knew the way he thought things should be, and Mr. Harinton was proving that other people--even adults--could feel the same way. Nicholas had something to aim for now. He might not know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but he knew with absolute certainty how he wanted to be.

After all he had accomplished, and considering how much he had learned and how far he had come, it is a curious fact—indeed, a remarkable one—that what Nicholas wanted now, more than anything, was to get started.

I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

Clint. She felt it before she'd met him, years before. The feeling of being trapped in a hole. No growth, no enhancement. Being trapped in this one place and unable to move. It seemed like such a simple plan in the beginning. First high school, then college, then career, then husband and children.

Every so often, you will have to bet on your self. Not everyone see or believe in your vision.

Someone's disapproval of a dream that you are passionate about, should not stop you from pursuing it.

The birds can fly An' why can't I?

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

If you're out to win at any cost, you may find the price is higher than you ever expected to pay.

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

I never aspired to be the PM...Why should I quit over a silly issue like corruption? - Devender Singh

Battlewinner spat out a shard of ice that sizzled into steam when it hit the lava. "You never wanted to be queen," she rasped. "You're a pathetic heir." "I know I am," Greatness said. "Being queen is awful.

We can't be anything. We can never, never be what I dream of us being.

So You Want to Be Famous

Until she WINS!" Cliff sang, vaulting into the air.

staring at the rankings as if they could reshape them with the sheer force of their eyeballs.

Not if you get high enough in the rankings," Hailstorm said with a grin. "Which you do by being brave and strong and bold." "I thought it was by being smart and following orders," Winter said.

Another few months of training, maybe. I'm feeling really

I've wanted to get my claws on it for years. I assume you read it. What happens next? Say the words 'Wasp dies slowly and horribly' and I'll make you my heir.

Six-Claws suspected that if she ever killed her mother, it wouldn't be for power or a throne; it would be for a pair of diamond earrings. And she wouldn't do it with her claws or her fire — she'd do it by annoying the queen to death.

Dad would never work for anyone else; he likes being lord himself too much. And he doesn't want to fight any more dragons. He'd rather hide from them.