Quotes About Ambition

There are times when a person wants something so badly that price or condition cease to be obstacles.

Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent -- or confronting any obstacle -- that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.

Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States.

Roxy Music became, as Bryan Ferry would observe in 1975, 'above all … a state of mind'.

we had bypassed Romeo and Juliet and gone straight to Macbeth.

The Human Spirit can never be paralyzed. If you are breathing, you can dream.

If you want a happy ending you have to go out and take it.

I can't really act - I'm just trying to make as much money as I can before anyone finds out.

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

Never give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping

Michael Cole

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top....

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

They will presume that you are like so many others, an academic infected with just the right amount of subtle ambition and a mild disaffection for orthodoxy—without falling outright into heresy. A

Why does man insist on trying to make his Utopia in the midst of a battleground?

YOU'VE GOT BIG IDEAS AND AMBITIONS IN YOUR CAREER, and you've done well ... so far. But are you ready for your next move? Because your path to the top will be built step-by-step through a series of major career moves. And each time you make a change, you have the opportunity to shine or to stumble. Shine and you will be positioned for still greater things. Stumble and you may never recover.

Sometimes it's better not to ask-or to listen-when tell you something can't be done. I didn't ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.

Party conferences can be such fun. They resemble a nest of cuckoos. Sit back and enjoy watching everyone trying to push the others out. The

There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."2

Meritocracy is about building heaven on earth, about transforming humans into Gods. If that's not your vision, meritocracy is certainly not for you.

Follow your dreams, because you wouldn't want it so bad if you couldn't have it. The universe gives you these dreams because you can have them. If you're willing to work for it, you can have anything you want.