Quotes About Ambition

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

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How would you describe Owen and Irene's relationship?" "Average," he said. "Could you elaborate?" "They were hardly star-crossed lovers. I suspect they made decent-enough roommates and they had a few things in common." "Like what?" "Lack of ambition. And a somewhat modest way of life.

M's plan would put Blake right up there in the history books with Alexander, with Charlemagne, with Napoleon. One of the most powerful men ever to have lived. Viceroy of the Americas.

While he sat there he decided he would buy a waterbed. He had always imagined owning a waterbed when he was successful, but now it struck him that getting the bed might invoke the man he wanted to become. You bought a waterbed and so became the sort of man who owned a waterbed.

You've always got to have a plan. Keep thinking ahead. Don't ever get complacent.

Think it. See it. Get it!

most people unconsciously dream themselves out of their goals. They dream so far past their current reality—or what's currently possible—that they end up abandoning their goals and damaging their own self-esteem.

Consciously or not, greed and power are deadly partners.

What makes one person's dreams come true when another's don't? Determination. Action. Desire.

Never say never, baby," Chris replies, and then turns the key, bringing the soft purr of an expensive engine to life.

True confidence means you're prepared to work hard enough and smart enough to make your own thunder. You don't need someone else's.

I'm neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want.

I'm neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want. In that case, I'm not only your enemy, I'm your nightmare.

Mychael said the rock's not affecting you, and from what I'm seeing I'm inclined to agree." "I beg to differ." "Feeling evil?" Justinius asked. "No." "Having an urge to overthrow governments, kill thousands?" "No and no." "Take over the world?" "Too much work.

It's been my experience that mankind—and I use that to encompass all the races—is seldom satisfied with what they have. Most people's striving is harmless, beneficial even. But there are those who strive for subjugation, having control over others' lives, lives held in the palm of their hand.

And sometimes, sometimes, wanting things, wishing for, working for them, is a good thing. Otherwise, we become nothing but spoiled boys and girls frustrated that we don't get every new toy we see.

Life never is just about what you want. Seldom ever.

I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time— something about not looking back when you're plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won't come out straight.

Even the ramparts of reputation, and ambition, and social position couldn't erase the love of sisters, their bond with one another. Suddenly, the barriers that created their need for hidden lives and secret meeting places seem almost as cruel as those of brokered adoptions, altered paperwork, and forced separations.

You can't aspire to something you've never seen.

Even the ramparts of reputation, and ambition, and social position couldn't erase the love of sisters, their bond with one another.

Again, I feel the tug-of-war between my own feelings and the hopes and plans my family has always held for me. The plans I always thought I held for myself.

Sooner or later, you have to shed your family's expectations and run the race on your own.