Quotes About Ambition

Meanwhile, Darnley was furiously plotting against his wife.

she continued so relentlessly to set her sights on recognition as the heir to a woman who was only nine years older

as it would soon give Mary a great deal more to think about than reasserting her claim to the throne of England.

Offers came in thick and fast: from the king of Denmark, from the king

It's far better to attempt something great and fail than to plan to do nothing and succeed.

Where one cannot compete, one must aspire.

The Sky Lounge is not aspirational. It is desperational.

He was over there making Yes album covers, and here I was, with my gaudy Trump Towers of rock junk.

We are formed by what we desire

I you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

If you don't feel you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then what you're doing probably isn't very vital. If you don't feel that you are writing somewhat over your head, why do it? If you don't have some doubt of your authority to tell this story, then you're not trying to tell enough.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

He felt fortunate to be with Helen; she had her own ambitions and he could not manipulate here.

How I live matters more than what I do. I have ambitions for the quality of how I live. I have no ambition for making money ...and I'd have time to read enough to be a constant source of information, ideas and language.

But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them. That's what happens, like it or not.

If you are luck enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

As a novelist, he was always looking ahead, too.)

Vano è dire che gli esseri umani dovrebbero contentarsi della tranquillità: occorre loro l'azione; e la creeranno, se non riescono a trovarla.

David Copperfield.

If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life that you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

What young writer is attracted to a sunny disposition?

When you grow up never being good enough, every day's a compromise between what you want to be -- and what you are.