Quotes About Ambition

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.

Don't worry, honey, Suzanne's mother says to Suzanne. One day you'll set the world on fire.

It never fails to amaze me how many beautiful young women with so much promise and talent wind

If you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough.

Few women had climbed its North Face, and even fewer had done it in winter, but no one had done it alone. She and Jim began talking up her plans and flouting her achievements.

I had found that taking risks, being true to myself, and making decisions with good intentions can exceed even my own expectations.

I don't want to feed my dreams.

You're allowed to want to use your education. You're allowed to want to be more than a mother.

She loved [her daughters]. More than that, she admired them. They would be better than she was: stronger and smarter, more capable and less afraid, and if the world displeased them, they would change it, cracking it open, reshaping it, instead of bending themselves to its demands.

Inadequacy and impostor syndrome are painful. They're also great motivators.

The idea that I could somehow end up with a giant chunk of cash at the end of this left me feeling shivery, hot and then cold, like I was coming down with the flu.

I don't know how it is, but I am so tired of commonplace happiness and commonplace goals.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

Authors like Martin Amis, Peter Ackroyd or Julian Barnes engage with metropolitan subject-matter, but the books that sell by the container-load are historical romances. The upper classes may have lost their political power, but they still manage to set the social tone and determine the aspirations of the ambitious.

Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. 

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.

Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. If he can squirm in anywhere where he particularly is not wanted, and be a perfect nuisance, and make people mad, and have things thrown at his head, then he feels his day has not been wasted. To get somebody to stumble over him, and curse him steadily for an hour, is his highest aim and object; and, when he has succeeded in accomplishing this, his conceit becomes quite unbearable.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before.

Let us have done with vain regrets and longings for the days that never will be ours again. Our work lies in front, not behind us; and Forward! is our motto.

Being only a chemist hampers me." I read the prescription. It ran: "1 lb. beefsteak, with 1 pt. bitter beer

Melhor trabalhar e fracassar do que passar a vida dormindo.

As our means increase, so do our desires;and we ever stand midway between the two.