Quotes About Ambition

she said she was going to live-that tomorrow wasn't guaranteed.

Don't be afraid of your dreams.

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I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

When you have that, you dream of this and when you have this, you dream of that. Maybe you call it romantic, but it's just plain stupidity. It destroys life.

The man who does only as much as is needed will only get that much.

Incredible things can be done simply because we are committed that we want it to happen, that's all.

I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

The ones who win usually don't need the prize.

I'd be a bum on the street with a tin cup if the markets were efficient.

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

this whole scene of me lying in bed and reading books would drive my mother to fits of anger, for she was sure it meant I was doomed to a life of slothfulness, but as it turned out, I was only doomed to write books other people might read.

I shall grow up to be a tall, graceful, and altogether beautiful woman, and I shall impose on large numbers of people my will and also, for my own amusement, great pain.

I shall never have the garden I have in my mind, but that for me is the joy of it; certain things can never be realized and so all the more reason to attempt them.

A man without a career is like, a knight without a sword."

Setting a goal is the first step, and completing a goal is the commitment."

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

He wanted to make a copy to send back to his sister – the one who'd been smart enough to finish college and was working for Weyland-Yutani as a forensic xenobiologist. She made disgustingly good money. Still, he got laid a lot more often. It was all a matter of perspective.

Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.

If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don't want to do something, no one can help you