Quotes About Ambition

Now that I'm caught up in it, I feel a whiff of panic. This is Diane. And just as before, we are thrown together, and just as before, we want the same thing. A prize, dangling.

My head is so full of plans that it seems aflame. Marie Curie

Running so hard, her breath stippled with pain to go faster, hit the grass harder, move forward faster, like she could break through something in front of her, something no one else saw.

doesn't he come for us? Why does he want us to be poor?

For anyone who's ever thought of giving up the dream . . . don't. Keep dreaming.

Margaret expected her friends to "be capable of seeking something." She cared little what that something was, only that her friends "should not be satisfied with the common routine of life,—that they should aspire to something higher, better, holier, than they had now attained.

Don't stop doing what you love. Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.

As our options expand, so do our desires - and unmet desires in particular.

YOU'RE GONNA GET BUMPED BY THE BEST MAN BRAND IN THE BUSINESS.

I'm psychology major who has no desire to work with people.

Play like you're in first, train like you're in second,

Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.

People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted;

If you were a girl who loved above all to read and write and who could not imagine an adulthood in which these activities did not hold a central place, you probably knew even before puberty that you were headed for conflict.

A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!

Anything which makes you feel tiny also motivates you to be big!

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.

Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places!

Do the things you want to do; if you don't, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!

Don't challenge the world before becoming a big fire; otherwise they will extinguish you even with little spits!

Every king sleeps, but not every king wakes up as king! The snakes of the intrigue crawl around during the night! The cleverest king is the least sleeping king!

Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool.