Quotes About Ambition

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

And always while I am still young, there is that dim light, the Future. But it is indeed a dim, dim light, and ofttimes there's a treachery in it.

Had I been born a man I would by now have made a deep impression of myself on the world - on some part of it. But I am a woman, and God, or the Devil, or Fate, or whosoever it was, has flayed me of the thick outer skin and thrown me out into the midst of Life - has left me a lonely damned thing filled with the red, red blood of ambition and desire, but afraid to be touched, for there is no thick skin between my sensitive flesh and the and world s fingers. But I want to be touched.

I have the personality, the nature, of Napoleon, albeit a feminine translation.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

Pioneers do not as a rule settle for the comfortable corners of life, and Maria Sklodowska was no exception.

Théodore Vacquer,

I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.

I convinced myself that having to drive a

Even the Pyramids were made to serve his consummate art and ambition! Although

It will be observed that when there were not enough thrones to go around, he simply created a kingdom! Certainly, with all his faults, no one can accuse him of not having provided well for his family!

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted

Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king.

I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

The trouble was that she could not see herself without money, and it seems never to have occurred to her that she could earn it.

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

The fear, too, is a fear of yourself: a completely dualistic and contradictory fear. On the one hand, it is the fear that you do not have what it takes to make it, and on the other hand, a possibly greater fear that you do have what it takes, and that by definition you therefore also have a responsibility to do something really big.

I wanted to turn heads not with lecherous leers of bemusement but with awe. I wanted to become untouchable, cruel, glittery, sleek and haughty as a cat.

It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.

The complete answer is not in these pages, but there's enough to get you started, Mary. You're bright, sensitive, intense, and driven. That's who you are,