Quotes About Ambition

Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.

my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.

And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.

only now was it starting to make sense why Lady Macbeth could never scrub the blood off her hands, why it was still there after she washed it away.

A dreamer will not stop having that dream until it has been fulfilled

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn't a learned behavior. It's just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off. Ways and means plus determination.

Funny thing about regrets. I don't lament what I've done, but rather, what I didn't do.

Barry Eisler.

The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

From a lifetime of buying cheap other folks' enterprise and energy and selling it off dear, Sir Edward knew all there is to know about riding winners on someone else's back.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it pursues its enemies. It is cunning and ruthless, it sends its bloodhounds everywhere. By night it feeds on images of disaster: the sack of cities, the rape of populations, pyramids of bones, acres of desolation.

There was a man Who made a boat To sail away And it sank.

Work is destiny. A man talks about the woman he loves, he might sound excited, but get him talking about his job, then check his eyes—that's the real him. A man is his job, kid, and I had no job, so I was a bum. A loser. America's a great place to be a winner, but it's hell's basement for losers. Three

J.R. Moehringer

Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Ja seda tahan ma teile ütelda: meid, eestlasi, on niivõrd vähe, et iga eestlase siht - või vähemalt iga Wikmani poisi siht peab olema surematus!

Eestis on täpselt vastupidi. Siin on minevik olnud nii pikka aega nii masendav, nii ahistav, nii ränk, et nüüd, otse nüüd - eile, täna, homme - peavad sündima mehed ja naised, ideed ja teod, millega luuakse meie suurus, Eesti suurus. Ja mina tahan - ja teie peate tahtma - et meil, et Wikmani gümnaasiumil oleks selle toimumises oma austav osa. Ja selle toimumata jäämises oma häbi.

The day you chose what you want to do, is the day you chose how u wan to live.

A lazy person never gets what he wants, but a hard-working man gets what he goes after.

All I ever wanted to be was a Mechanic," Mari said. Camber nodded, stepping back. "Yet you were willing to be the daughter when called upon. The world suffers from those whose ambition drives them to be more and more. But it needs those willing to be more than they wish when they are needed.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. ROBERT FRITZ