Quotes About Ambition

Follow your envy — it shows you what you want.

she didn't want to just add things to her bucket list; she wanted to cross things off too.

The future is hope. Where's the hope if you already know what happens? What are you living for then? What are you striving for?

The only place I see you headed, Grady, is where you want to go. Wherever that might be. You're in control of your life. You have it in you to achieve whatever you set your mind to. And don't let Drew or anybody else tell you different.

One day I want to surprise everyone by doing something unexpected and amazing, so I can be proud of myself.

This was the next phase of her life and from now on, she wasn't going to take any rubbish from anyone. From now on she was going to decide what she wanted and go for it.

The future had started to seem like a challenge he could conquer.

Don't ever be sorry for being who you are. Most of us go our whole lives not really getting it right, just settling." He tugged a strand of her hair. "Do you have any idea the strength it takes to not settle? To keep pushing and seeking for what works?

Don't ever wait around for your life. Go get what you want. Because believe me, no one's going to give it to you.

Go big or go home. That was the Kincaid way.

My parents mean well, Grace said. They want me to succeed. Well of course, Mallory said. They love you. But I'm thinking success and happiness don't get along. Sometimes you have to sacrifice one for the other.

What is it you want?" he asked softly. Anything.

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

Isana laughed. And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition? The lady smiled. That's a question rarely asked here at court. And why is that? Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.

We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.

I guess maybe you don't get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

I hate what you represent. ... Power without conviction. Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

We had reached the doors to my suite, which still felt awkward to say, even in my own head. My suite. Guys like me don't have suites. We have lairs.

Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them.

If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone was it.

I had about as much chance to do that as I did of backpacking my car to the top of Mount Rushmore.

We're stunning—and we need to be, if we're to make a good impression and accomplish our goals. It's vain, it's stupid, and it's shallow, but that makes it no less true.

I think men who lust for power are capable of almost anything.

It's what you do with the want that matters.