Quotes About Ambition

Google puts itself first. So does every other company on the planet. There is no requirement that you have to put yourself second. Indeed, why would you?

Working hard will allow you to be useful to successful people. Working smart will allow you to enter their ranks.

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

He simply wanted more money without additional responsibility. A sound investment. That is the sort of fellow that makes other people's Empire possible. Sells his birthright to a foreigner.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

The man of desire needs the promise of reward to urge him to action. He is as a child working for the possession of a toy.

The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.

FRED WOLF: No one goes to Hollywood to meet their future husband or wife, or buy a house and have kids. They all go to Hollywood because they're kind of damaged and there's something they're searching for.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

Pressure is a great motivator

Com outra - diz ele - se sentiria como essas pessoas com diploma em física nuclear ou engenharia eletrônica que acabam trabalhando de garçom.

He finds the idea of someone wanting to be paid as well as published a particularly repulsive, almost obscene form of literary pretension.

El afán es el deseo de ser un gran hombre y de hacer grandes cosas, y la pena y la agloria que todo eso produce. Eso es el afán.

El afán es el deseo de ser un gran hombre y de hacer grandes cosas, y la pena y la gloria que todo eso produce. Eso es el afán.

Si quieren ser albañiles, decidles que arquitectos, y si arquitectos que ministros de la vivienda. No permitáis nunca que se cumpla el afán, no pongáis los sueños al alcance de los niños para que nunca sean tan miserables como vosotros...

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.

Il m'arrive de penser que ce serait sympa de trouver des mecs intelligents qui veuillent bien travailler seize heures par jour pour des clopinettes –mais bon, s'ils le voulaient bien, ils ne seraient pas si intelligents.

I tell my life's story for that humble reason which has inspired every user of the form: to prove to the world I am a great man. I shall fail, of course, like the others.

You cannot pursue greatness and comfort at the same time.