Quotes About Ambition

worse. She wanted to

It wasn't so much the things that her fourteen-year-old self wanted. It was the fact that she so blissfully, so completely, believed she had a right to want anything.

I was just average, I'm afraid. Too dreamy. After school,

the human aspiration to fly." "It's really lovely," said Frances.

Ah, yes, money. They say it doesn't buy happiness, but I don't know about that.

care that he didn't care? When he was a kid all he'd wanted to do was beat his older brother, in anything and

She used to think that success was like gold, worth sifting through mud for, and that love would always be there, waiting somehow on the riverbanks for her when she was done panning. She couldn't imagine now why she thought that, given her background. She ought to have recognized love's scarcity early on. If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.

smart one, the one who needed more

She'd always made a point of pretending not to be interested in money, because she was, in fact, very interested in it.

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

What are you doing?" he asked. "If it's anything like what I just came through, it's impossible." That set me. "Impossible?" This was the whole point of all the work and energy I'd put into the past five years. Everything aimed toward one thing: Iditarod. I lifted the snow hook. "Okay, gang. Let's go.

If yous a hater. Im eatin, yous a waiter.

You cant get on my level. you gon need a space shuttle or a ladder. thats forever.

And my future will be better than my past.

They dont know where I came from but they know where Im goin.

Im so far ahead, I got to save the last dance.

The sky is the limit.

I think about more than I forget, but I dont go around fire expecting not to sweat.

Flyer than the rest but I dont rest I keep goin.

They know where carter at, straight off the launching pad. Marching on the moon muthafucka I been to mars and back. Cleaner than laundry mats.

Im on top of my green like a lawn chair.

Truely cold, shawty need a movie role.

All these bitches and niggas still hatin. I use to be ballin but now Im bill gatin.

Im a made nigga, I should dust somethin. You niggas on the bench, like the bus comin.