Quotes About Ambition

In spite of this, he will reach his heart's desire with wondrous precision.

the man who sat naked in his tub said to Alexander the Great, who ruled the whole world: 'I am a greater lord than you are, for I have spurned more than you have seized. What you think it is a great thing to possess, is too trivial for me to scorn.

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we're fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

His seed will issue kings, but he will never reign For she would be Queen of Lumatere. But he would be king to her.

I stand up and walk towards her because my days of waiting for more are over. If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

Despite the voice in his head that says he doesn't want anything that's owed to his father, Tom can't wait to get his hands on it. "Just take it. Hit your old man over the head with it. You're dying to.

Simple dreams are the hardest to come true.

Nothing worse than a weak man with ambition, who gains power because those before him died rather than because his ideals were grand.

to be smart means you know all the answers and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming...There's nothing to look forward to anymore if you don't have dreams...Because dreams are goals...and it's not going to happen today or tomorrow it's going to happen in years and ut's something to look forward to.

Me levanto y ando hacia ella, porque mis tiempos de esperar más han terminado.Si quiero más, tengo que ir a buscarlo, exigirlo, abrazarlo con todas mis fuerzas y tratarlo de la mejor manera de la que soy capaz.

Fantastic. My little brother's ambition is to be a stick-in-the-mud moron with no personality.

Have you ever tried?' 'No.' 'Then don't tell me I can't.

This world is yours.

I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more--much, much more.

Sometimes you have to just go for what you want. Take the risk in order to get the reward.

We are, each one of us, all talking advertisements for our history. Accent is the snake and the ladder in the upstairs downstairs of social ambition. Accent is the con man's first resource.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.

Before colonels commanded or astronauts flew, they were nearly forty! They told you all these things you could be, but the truth of it was that when you wanted it you couldn't have it, and when you got it, you were old and boring like everybody else. It quenched ambition

Genius only means being hardworking all one's life.

front of the part-chooserers. I am going to practise my lines ALL WEEKEND! Good night, Diary.