Quotes About Ambition

It is better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Her life's work was a fantastical pipe dream to the backers who had sanctioned the project but were now cutting back on what they considered frivolous expenditures.

Just remember, Callum when you're floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall.

The higher you climb, the further you have to fall.

And... well, she had done it. Just as she said she would. She felt nothing - which was good - no, which was great . You could get anything you wanted in this world if you didn't feel. It was just a shame that she couldn't feel happy about it. She would've settled for feeling satisfaction at what she'd done, but feeling nothing at all was better than feeling bad. If that was all there was, then that was all she wanted or needed

when you're floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall.

To tell the truth, I was looking forward to school tomorrow. I was actually going to secondary school. I could make something of myself, do something with my life. Once I had a proper education behind me, no one could turn around and say, 'You're not smart enough or good enough.' No one. I was on my way UP! And with a proper education behind me, nothing could stand between Sephy and me. Nothing. three.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

You went for bronze over brains.

This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.

What future did the Jazter see for himself, exactly? Would his days of shikar continue indefinitely, or did he dare look beyond the beaches and the train stations and the alleys? Could he, in some part buried deep within, secretly crave conventionality? (Or was that too much of a heresy?)

Philosophy invites man out of the vainness of selfishness; out of the sorrow of ignorance and the despair of worldliness; out of the travesty of ambition and the cruel clutches of greed; out of the red hell of hate and the cold tomb of dead idealism.

The common signs do not bestow the driving power of the cardinal types or the inflexibility of the fixed signs. There is likely to be less high ambition or intensive continuity.

The common signs do not bestow either a hardy constitution or any unusual measure of will power. The vitality not being great, there is insufficient energy to sustain ambition or the urge to power.

I am ready to make plenty of sacrifices to reach my goals, and no one's going to stop me.

Capture what's given to you but strive for what is not.

We live because of the dreams.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

Over the course of time, their successive readings will question and enrich it. Thus the work will no longer belong to the author; he will be dispossessed of it. We could even say that the author will no longer belong to himself either—which corresponds to the most modest and ambitious of dreams he is able to formulate and to the wisest and wildest illusion he can maintain: to ignore age and let time run its course. To write is to die a little, but a little less alone.

Later, as we neared the $1 billion in revenue mark, we didn't focus on $1 billion in revenue, but what we needed to do to get to $10 billion in revenue.

I learned very quickly since then that the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off.

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