Quotes About Ambition

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Keep moving forward until we find something better to do, Hinchcliffe replied. Maybe find the nursery for the dog-demons. I'd rather kill them stillborn. I didn't know you were a Democrat, Staff Sergeant, Berg said with a grin. Don't ask, don't tell, Two-Gun.

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If there is a will there is an A.

So then, men may let their great powers lie dormant, while they employ their mean and petty powers on mean and petty objects; but it is physically impossible to employ a great power, except on a great object.

They both knew what they were thinking, though neither said it: Taryn Grant had what it took to be president. She had the business background, she understood economics and finance, she had the money wrapped up, she looked terrific, she had a mind that understood the necessary treacheries: a silken Machiavelli.

WILLIE PURDY DIDN'T want to have anything to do with Caralee, who'd been recovered from Marlys's quilting friend. Caralee and Jesse eventually moved up the highway to Des Moines, where Jesse got a good-paying job working for an old high-school buddy, selling Colorado marijuana to real estate agents, and started saving for a truck farm of his own. He stopped drinking.

Dannon had tried to catch her eye, but she'd resolutely moved on to the next Important Person.

John Sandford

John Sandford

The plan is not the goal.

For all that, the higher Kiva ascended the steps of power, the more she realized that her policy of selfishness had, shall we say, certain limits. Perhaps

High-risk, high-reward situations where the path to success isn't laid out but has to be cut by machetes through a jungle filled with poison toads.

I'm trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up. A nice thing to wonder about when you're thirty.

I'll do my best," Wilson said. "Your best got you stationed on the Clarke," Abumwe said. "Do better than that.

You don't win by getting through all your life not having done anything.

I think that a lot of the drive to have overachieving children is defensive—the idea of making sure your child is fully armed against all the other kids, whose parents are busy packing their little brains with facts so they can claw their way into the Ivy League over the broken bodies of their classmates. While

Despite the fact that he fully intended to be one of them, Marce managed to feel resentment toward them, toward the people who could, in fact, leave their problems behind through the simple application of money.

When power is within reach, few will wait patiently for it.

We all have passions.

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.

Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head.