Quotes About Ambition

Lisi Harrison

Lisi Harrison

One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?"-Massie Block

If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha

If there is something one wants badly, one must often be bold.

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

Oscar Wilde suggested that every portrait painted with feeling is of the artist not the sitter. The artist reveals himself through the coloured canvas. The self-portrait is therefore a consultation of what the artist wishes to say about their art, a physical rendering that aims to included a psychoanalytical evaluation. It may offer and insight into the essence of their creative unconscious, their ambitions and desires. Yet the act of painting a self portrait is also implicitly about death.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

I may believe I'm not up to snuff, but Jill? Jill thinks I can date the Great Gatsby.

I have just gotten sick of always being called intense, you know?" "Intense is good", Maria saya. "Not for little girls" "For little girls who want to be the first female fighter pilots?

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

Go after your dreams. Never give up!

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

I can tell you at any rate how to get what you want. You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eye wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal--the truest thing in Scripture is about Lot's wife.

The guy's only doing it for some doll.

When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky You can bet that he's doing it for some doll.