Quotes About Ambition

I wished i were seven feet tall. I'd hop up there and attack ol' Samson while the crowd went wild. I'd whip him good, send him flying, and become the biggest hero in Black Oak. But, for now, I could only boo him.

Sure it will. That's part of it, Abby. It's a cutthroat business where the weak are eaten and the strong get rich. It's a marathon. He who endures wins the gold. And dies at the finish line.

Something like that. And

When used properly, it implied that Finley & Figg was something above your average two-bit operation.

And the voice will tell you to pick yourself up, to set a goal, to work harder than anybody else, stick to the basics, execute perfectly, be confident, be brave, and never, never quit. The voice is never far away.

On the downside, there are pretty serious motivational problems, especially among the young. Why go to college and pursue a career when your income is guaranteed for life? Why try and find a job?

She despised the building and often dreamed of ways to acquire enough power to tear it down and start over. But that was just a dream.

the cutthroat world

Greed is a strange animal

He was headed for Wall Street and had been sidetracked by the money. Only the money.

whom they could not find) and some sympathetic relatives. The poverty hurt, and they assumed, correctly, it had bred the intense desire to succeed.

his goal was $500,000. For the individuals—$5,000 maximum gift—Rinehart had a list of a thousand corporate executives and senior managers of companies in industries that attracted litigation from trial lawyers. Chief among these were insurance companies, and he would collect a million dollars from his contacts there. Carl Trudeau had given him the names of two hundred executives of companies controlled by the Trudeau

I'm sure that if I stay in this business I'll one day think of a dirtier trick, but one's hard to imagine now.

Vonn Dubose may have ice water in his veins, but Claudia McDover did not. Her insatiable appetite for cash was finally fading. She had enough. She and Phyllis could travel the world in style and laugh about the Indians.

so full of life and irresistible, end up disgraced and deposed?

Mary was a Catholic, and Cecil's overriding ambition was to remold the whole of the British Isles

The lords realized that her position as the future queen of France

the Duke of Guise usurped his seat at dinner.

it began to sink in that whoever married her was likely to become king and could make or break their careers.

Darnley was utterly confident that he had pulled off a coup.

and Mary was to lure Darnley to his fate at Kirk o'Field.

The Guises had played their poker game and lost.

epic scale without choosing the ground or the moment carefully enough.

his goal, unlike Elizabeth's, was to keep her off the throne.