Quotes About Ambition

It was a post her former colleagues no doubt viewed as a significant step down. But Reine Marie wasn't interested in steps. She'd arrived at where she wanted to be. No more steps." Chapter 1 · Page 5 · Location 101

Her high school marks were mixed. She barely scraped by, though she did well, but erratically, in history, languages and literature." "She only did what interested her," said Lacoste. "Lazy?" "Looks like it. Or at least, not motivated.

I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don't have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I'll be a bloke, they don't have to make sense either.

Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.

What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

The real work of startups is about as sexy and fun as a root canal and about as natural as a jolly rancher. Founding

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat? Who doesn't have at least one pair of wax wings out in the garage?

Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune.

These ambitious scoundrels were quite devoid of scruples, and they had now joined forces; it could not escape their penetration that human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope and that anyone who can make these serve his ends may be sure of a rapid fortune.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

For greed all nature is too little.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

Scale is not a destination. Don't get caught up in the narrative telling you to grow if growth isn't what you really want. Remember, big isn't the same as great.