Quotes About Ambition

You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?

My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

The Wars of the Roses…were one of the most confused and confusing chapters of English history; in which each usurper, as soon as he had gained the throne, found himself having to defend it against the next; in which so many members of the feuding families were closely inter-related; in which a man could be both hero and villain at one and the same time… One by one, the royal houses of England destroyed each other and themselves.

I want to seize fate by the throat.

The barriers are not erected which can say to [aspiring] talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

After sticking out life, I hope it's whatever you want it to be.

Success would come only at the expense of losing her cool, at the risk of turning into someone she did not want to be.

I don't believe in self-pity. I think it's for people who have too much time on their hands. Instead of dreaming of a miracle, you learn to make your own.

The moral of the story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it... some stories just don't have a happy ending

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The problem, he said, with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself.

They don't want to wait their turn. They don't want to work their way up the ladder. They want what they want now

Fake it until you make it, she said.

What's left unfinished? What is it that you haven't done yet, that you need to do before you leave this life?

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I

He wondered why, after years of wanting to stand at the very top, he felt so goddamned empty.

In all the universe I'm just a speck of dust, but all I can do is keep trying.

I told you why. If I don't do it now, I never will. I'll just be some office drone ten years from now, wishing I had done something interesting at least once in my life.

I thought I had the world by the tail. It took me a few years to realize the closest I was to having the world by the tail was being a dingle berry on one of its ass hairs.