Quotes About Ambition

they had become the people her parents worked for. But they were better versions. And her parents, hungry as they were, would have expected no less. You couldn't fight the Haves. The only thing you could do was become them to such a degree that they came to you for what they had not.

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you (102) - Tony Gonzalez, The Giant Within

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do!

You have to do what you gotta do in this life in order to do what you wanna do...

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion -- and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder...

what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.

I am a warrior, that my son may be a merchant—and his son may be a poet.

A man's life had to have more purpose than only to feed himself each day.

I've heard it said that a man's reach must exceed his grasp—or what's a heaven for?

One of my mother's friends was an artist. He showed me a few things – though warning me that to become an artist was the only certain way to starve.

Yoksul insanlar zengin adam?n alt?nlar? için ölür ve bu her zaman da böyle olacak, deÄŸil mi?

Though I could wish your own limits went a bit further.

Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion—and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder, studying history Ã¢â'¬Â¦ 

He grinned wryly at his nephew. "Ye'll amount to something for your mother's sake—if it kills us both.

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Ye mind me o' your uncle Dougal, a sionnach," she said, tilting her head to one side coquettishly. "He was older when I met him than you are now, but you've the look of him about ye, aye? Like ye'd take what ye pleased and damn anyone who stands in your way." Jamie

We want to be successful in places like Europe, U.S. and in other parts of Asia. That's our goal.

Hopefully I can do well and I hope tennis can get bigger in Japan and Asia. That's my goal.

Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live long enough to write them all!

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

I have no political aspiration.

I didn't have any aspirations to be famous at all.