Quotes About Ambition

If I have to die tonight,if this weight is going to kill me tonight,so be it! I am dying where I wanna be

Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition, I can do little else in my present position.

Never thoughts of suicide, I'm too alive. But I still treat it like it's do or die.. even though dyin' isn't in the plans, but neither was makin' it and here I am

I am going to seek a great Perhaps.

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.

Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons.

Cuando esto haya terminado ese joven lamentará no sólo haberse metido en política, sino también aprendido a volar— dijo Roosevelt cuando se enteró que había sido nombrado como candidato republicano a las próximas elecciones en las que el sería el candidato demócrata

Había dos clases de hombres fuertes: los que eran como tío Monty y Abr Steinhem. , despiadados en su afán de ganar dinero, y los que eran como mi padre, implacablemente obedientes a su idea del juego limpio.

Una universidad era una universidad: que fueras a una cualquiera y acabaras licenciándote era lo único que le importaba a una familia tan poco mundana como la mía.

Pero en cuanto quieres apasionadamente lo que se encuentra más allá de tu alcance, estás listo para la frustración, te estás preparando para cuando te obliguen a ponerte de rodillas.

I curled myself around these dreams and I began to be happy.

Indeed,"wrote C. S. Lewis142, "if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.

The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.

Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

Yes, Your Grace, I correct her. I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions and doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina: Margaret R.

This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.

I don't know how much we will rise, I say stoutly. And I have no fear of falling. He looks at me. You are ambitious to rise? We are all on fortune's wheel, I say. Without a doubt we will rise. We may fall. But still I have no fear of it.