Quotes About Ambition

The personal dream of every radical is to be at the center of creation and the renewal of the world.

you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy and angry all of the days of your life."9

Neurotic obsessed suffering is essential for greatness.

You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'

If we can get this done, [Doom] is going to be the fucking coolest game that the planet Earth has ever fucking seen in its entire history!

The ambitious and restless, the poor and desperate, the gullible, the land hungry, the exile from oppression, the start-over dreamer, the Go West! hothead, the get-rich-quick drifter--all were spellbound by the mystique of Dakota in the 1880s.

Please keep turning your dreams in for new ones.

Don't be so sure that what you want is what you should have.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

The thing about possibilities: there are some you want much more than others. Or only one you want much more than everything else.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

Covet, v. This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

Don't let anyone make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

New Yorkers love the bigness- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves.

You are here for the headstrong girl who will grow up to be president or something more important, like an English teacher

Codiciar. Existe una diferencia entre tú y yo: tú deseas lo que tienen los otros mientras que yo deseo las cosas que tenía, o las que creo que tendré en el futuro.

i have to keep reminding myself that this is what i wanted - this is what everybody's supposed to want.

There's always tomorrow, I tell myself. Which sounds less possible than someday, and much more possible than never. -A

The thing about a spotlight is that you have to step into it. You have to get onto that stage. I haven't been ready for a lot of things, but from early on, I was ready for this.

Elijah's problem, in Danny's mind, is that he has no sense of what it takes to make a living. Danny's problem, in Elijah's mind, is that he has no sense of what it takes to make a life.