Quotes About Ambition

TargetControlSystem hit me with everything it had. It told me I would never take the ship. I told it. "Okay you keep the ship. I'll take the planet.

They don't want anything to come between them and their goal. They have their ideas, they don't want facts to bother them.

remembered the main reason I was doing this was to

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

that overwhelming desire to find a way to succeed, if only to be spared public humiliation.

To her, it was an article of faith: any woman with talent owes it to herself, and to her gender, to make the most of her potential.

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it!

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled" Barack Obama, US President

Martin L. Shoemaker

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

as the apostle says, Phil 3:13, it forgets the things that are behind and always stretches out to the things that are ahead.

You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.

In common with the rest of the world she was eager to grasp at any straw which might rehabilitate her dreams.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Antoine n'avait pas pu être alcoolique. Il prit comme remède de substitution la résolution de se suicider. Être alcoolique avait été sa dernière ambition d'intégration sociale, se donner la mort était l'ultime moyen qu'il voyait pour participer au monde. ("Comment devenir stupide", p41)

Alexander the Great is well-known as a larger-than-life king. It turns out that he was also a larger-than-life reader.

A man is measured by the quantity of what he produces, never the quality of his dreams.

Men's lot in life is endless hard work whose fruits will be consumed largely by others. The more men bring in, the greater the demands. Should men fail, they may lose both what they made and those to whom they gave it. Perhaps the most terrifying thing about Melville's story is that, at times, Bartleby's behavior and fate can tempt even the most active and successful man.

You must look out for number one. If you don't, no one else will.

The future was eventually all about what you had really done, not what you wished you had done.

Now, as a wage earner, she had gained a certain grudging respect, but it had been a long time coming. At fifteen, she understood her life better than people three times her age; she needed to keep the peace until she had enough money to set up on her own, or marry herself out of it all.

Life is what you make it,

What you need beyond that is a facile imagination and the skills to apply it, driven by a passionate will toward a focused goal.