Quotes About Ambition

Hollywood wives. The younger generation.

I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

You're a heroin Flinty McAlpine. I reckon you can do anything you set your mind to.

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.

Xerxes BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS

PETER THE GREAT.

Man is not naturally a ferocious wild beast. On the contrary, he loves, ordinarily, to live in peace and quietness, to till his lands and tend his flocks, and to enjoy the blessings of peace and repose. It is comparatively but a small number in any age of the world, and in any nation, whose passions of ambition, hatred, or revenge become so strong as that they love bloodshed and war. But these few, when they once get weapons into their hands, trample recklessly and mercilessly upon the rest.

Julius Caesar BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS

CHAPTER I. MARIUS AND SYLLA.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Go Fast or be last

initiatives.

Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

Love is but a frailty of mind when 'tis not with ambition joined." -Sir Thomas Seymour

When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

No one should give up a dream without giving it a chance to come true.

Everyone should at least try to do the thing he wants to do. Later in life situations and responsibilities force people to compromise. But to compromise now...it's like quitting before you start.

Helen Lawson: They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me.

Jacqueline Wilson

There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. —Langston Hughes

When I tell my family I want to be a writer, they smile and say, We see you in the backyard with your writing. They say, We hear you making up all those stories. And, We used to write poems. And, It's a good hobby, we see how quiet it keeps you. They say, But maybe you should be a teacher, a lawyer, do hair . . . I'll think about it, I say. And maybe all of us know this is just another one of my stories.