Quotes About Ambition

But we all want stupid things. That doesn't mean we should have them.

Cuando hay mucho poder concentrado en un mismo sitio, hay un montón de sobras por las que pelearse.

I would live down to his every expectation. If I couldn't have his favor, then I would have his wrath.

After seeing what Balekin is like, I want Dain on the throne more than ever.

Let me have everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed, and eternal misery along with it. Let me live on with an ice chard through my heart.

She feels as though she has something to prove at all times. Feels as though she has to earn the crown on her head over and over again.

Let me have everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed, and eternal misery along with it. Let me live on with an ice chard through my heart. -Jude Duarte

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

Follow your dreams!

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time to pursue them is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.

When I'd tell my mother about these women around me - and how sometimes I felt that I didn't measure up - she'd chastise me for getting sucked into their nonsense. 'How do you expect to get where you want to go if you're rubbernecking at everyone else along the way? Don't focus on what you wrongly perceive as your shortcomings.

They strove to pile Ossa on Olympus, and on Ossa Pelion with its leafy forests, that they might scale the heavens.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

There will be nothing you may not aspire to; you will go everywhere, and you will find out what the world is — an assemblage of fools and knaves.

Le monde est un bourbier, tâchons de rester sur les hauteurs.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.