Quotes About Ambition

Well fine, then. I could send you out to win my favor. Possibly on a quest involving bringing a large mug of coffee and a doughnut. Or the wholesale slaughter of all my enemies. I haven't decided which.

Ruthless. That's my girl.

Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.

When there is a lot of power concentrated in one place, there are plenty of scraps to fight over. If the Court isn't busy drinking poison, then it's drinking bile.

Stop waiting. Sink those pretty little teeth into something.

And if it stings a little that he admires me primarily for my ruthlessness, well, I suppose there should be some comfort that he admires me at all.

There's people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don't. I want to go on a quest. I've always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I'm not backing down from it. I'm not going home until it's complete.

You're young, but you're ambitious in the way that perhaps only the young can be.

A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.

I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.

I have been Madoc's protégé and Dain's creature. I don't know how to win any other way but theirs. It is no recipe for being a hero, but it is a recipe for success. I know how to drive a knife through my own hand. I know how to hate and be hated. And I know how to win the day, provided I am willing to sacrifice everything good in me for it. I said that if I couldn't be better than my enemies, then I would become worse. Much, much worse.

Call wasn't sure what it meant that he'd gone full Evil Overlord on Jasper but still couldn't manage to impress him.

For what we want most, we will take almost any chance.

With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.

This is weakness, to put fear above ambition, above family, above love, but it feels good. It feels like being powerful.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won't be Queen for long.

But first, blot out a few more sparks. Drown a few more stars.

No, I cannot see myself serving Balekin.

If I cannot be better than them, I will be so much worse.

The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed. Once, I was content to hope for knighthood and the power to force Cardan and his friends to leave me alone. All I wanted was to find some place to fit in here in Faerie. Now I wonder what it would be like to choose the next king.

I imagine what it would be like to have my own crown, my own power. Maybe I wouldnt have to be afraid to love him. Page 305

The Big Score.

And that means Madoc isn't just trying to take Cardan's throne. He's trying to take mine.

I don't desire to do as well in the tournament as one of the fey. I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.