Quotes About Ambition

Learn this moral: first establish your right to the good things of this world, grab the biggest share of prosperity possible less ten per cent for charity, then mouth pious nothings into a microphone in the comfort of your town or country house.

I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.

what I like to call the spiritual nature of the game. I can't pretend to be an expert in leadership theory. But what I do know is that the art of transforming a group of young, ambitious individuals into an integrated championship team is not a mechanistic process. It's a mysterious juggling act that requires not only a thorough knowledge of the time-honored laws of the game but also an open heart, a clear mind, and a deep curiosity about the ways of the human spirit.

If you do different, you will have different. If you begin to require more of yourself, that in and of itself is different.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

You can choose to see your goal with 20/20 accuracy, and when you can see a goal that clearly, you can achieve it.

Don't ask, don't get.

the only difference between you and someone you envy is you settled for less

great and sustained destruction requires great ambition. It must be conceived as the means toward achieving a new order, and although the idea behind that new order may be criminal and objectively very stupid, it must also be compellingly simple and at the same time absolute. The ideology of genocide is all of those things.

I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.

The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.

Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step.

So you want to have gone to Mars. Very good.

We are all insects," he said to Miss Ephreikian. "Groping toward something terrible or divine. Do you not agree?

Be small … and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

He built, and the more he built the more he enjoyed building. By now the city was over eighty miles deep and five miles in diameter. The whole island had been converted into a single vast city that honeycombed and interlaced farther each day. Eventually it would reach the land beyond the ocean; then the work would begin in earnest.

You know, I struggled for years to get through Training. I had to work and pay my own way. Washed dishes, worked in kitchens. Studied at night, learned, crammed, worked on and on. And you know what I think, now? What? I wish I'd become a plant earlier.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

Sargon grew up as a gardener

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?" That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

Mas o que é melhor, almejar a pureza absoluta e fracassar completamente. ou fazer concessões e ter sucesso, mesmo que parcial?