Quotes About Ambition

Researchers have found that the more people focus on their odds of winning, the less likely they'll go for it. But the more they focus on what they'll win if they succeed, the more likely they'll go for it.

My whole life has been heat. I like heat, in a certain way.

We're going to win at space.

And above all, we must reduce drug use for one great moral reason: Over time, drugs rob men, women and children of their dignity, and of their character. Illegal (and legal) drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope. And when we fight against drugs, we fight for the souls of our fellow Americans

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits!

You must let your desires guide you, instead of allowing yourself to be boxed in by perceived constraints.

Iamque opus exegi, quod nec Iovis ira nec ignes nec poterint ferrum nec edax abolere vetustas. cum volet, illa dies, quae nil nisi corporis huius ius habet, incerti spatium mihi finiat aevi: parte tamen meliore mei super alta perennis astra ferar, nomenque erit indelibile nostrum, quaque patet domitis Romana potentia terris, ore legar populi, perque omnia saecula fama, siquid haben veri vatum praesagia, vivam.

Pugachov sonrió amargamente. —No, ya es tarde para arrepentirse. No habrá perdón para mí. Continuaré lo que he empezado. ¡Quién sabe! ¡A lo mejor lo consigo!

That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.

As C. S. Lewis put it, "Aim at heaven and you will get the earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

See? My plans don't all suck. Just most of them.

Better to run toward something than run from something.

Well...I would make an awesome mayor. I'm very photogenic.

I'll rest when I'm dead.

A dream deferred is a dream denied.

Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?

What do you want ? It was a hard question, especially if I had to bat en down the sarcasm. I mean, there was the beauty pageant answer of world peace, although I'd probably have to render it in the beauty pageant spelling of world peas.

The Velmas of the world do not intern at CNN, hope to be accepted at Columbia J-School after graduating NYU with honors, and go on to win Pulitzer Prizes by getting bogged down in relationship drama. That's a problem for the Daphnes of the world. Daphne, you bitch, you can't even drive the damn van.

People come to New York to be different

I'm a nineteen-year-old guy with nothing better to do than moonlight as a doorman, and daydream about you.

We need to be willing to chance failure in order to succeed.

No point in playing if your goal is to lose.

Do it, Ester. If you must, then deceive your husband just as you deceived me—but you'll do it with a full belly and a house with children. I wish

What was there to stop him from choosing some completely different life, after all? Nothing but the fact that he'd never wanted a different life.