Quotes About Ambition

The winged beasts and angels know, that mortals cannot fly. But how I flew to see the sun; a broken bird am I.

Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.

But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such 'wisdom' does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice" (James 3:14

Normally, we're never satisfied.

I thought about Vic being rich. She already had the fuck-you attitude; fuck-you money might be too much.

Like all true horse's asses, he hoped to go into politics.

I haven't figured out how to turn it on, but when I do I'm going to be hell on wheels.

And hoped to advance his own political career with a personal victory." "Like all true horse's asses, he hoped to go into politics.

Maybe it was just what happens when you finally get something you want and it turns out not to be what you wanted after all. You spend most of the time in life running after things that aren't that important, and the pursuit becomes more desirable than the prize.

Greed and ego are too often the downfall of mankind

Yet he worked unceasingly, amassing a considerable fortune in the process, at turning clients who were indubitably criminals loose upon society. He always assumed that the words from a witness' mouth were perjury, unless he had put them there himself. He expected his friends eventually to double-cross him, and was neither surprised nor hurt when they occasionally did. Yet this did not interfere in the least with his very sincere liking for them.

Don't ever stop living for anything. Chase your dreams, and catch them shits!

There's this thing you're supposed to be part of in London. But what is it? That's the million-dollar question. Everyone's there because they're searching, aspiring. A very small percentage is actually living the dream. Ill, tired, unhappy, the rent is fucking loads, what is it you're getting? The idea of it, or something.

Edison said, "Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure."35

Should Shakespeare have stayed home in Stratford-on-Avon to help rear his family and not have abandoned them for London, the city that made him?

They experience a 'divine discontent,' as Jeff Bezos called it," between what is and what might be—and they act.

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

And yet, what else could he do but try the next

Cuando tenía doce años quería ser actriz. No he tenido suerte: he sido emperatriz

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

Oprah got her money," she snapped. "You trying to get YOURS! No, turn off that fuckin' TV and get to studying!

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world.