Quotes About Ambition

You take pains for me which are unnecessary; learned conversations are not at all in my way: I love to live at ease; and, in whatever is said, one must take too much trouble to become clever; it is an ambition which does not at all enter my mind. I find myself very well, mother, in being stupid; and I prefer having nothing but common-place talk to tormenting myself to say fine words.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

The only requirement of having a dream is believing in it.

Her dreams had not survived her dreaming them; they'd been broken and repaired, only to be smashed again and again.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

fifty, ambitiously but unsuccessfully dressed in a black satin

I smiled faintly. One word: badass. I want to be Jericho Barrons when I grow up." - Feverborn (Fever, #8)

He offered her the world. She said she had her own.

That's the way it is with dreams. They scratch at your door. You see them through the peep hole: a stray dream looking for a home. You think it might go away if you ignore it. Wrong. It's still there when you open the door, smiling. Wagging its tail.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until you're sixty-five.

He didn't know the first thing about greed. He thought it was all about money.

Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.

The only credential the city [New York] asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

Through struggle to the stars.

What you dont want to do can be a tool for what you want to be.

People will wish you the best. Then hate on you when you get it.

School motto's are not what they exactly produce! Our motto was education is wealth, but look how I am.

Uganda is one of the leading African countries in the world that specialises in killing both the dream & the dreamer. So work hard and be wise.

What keeps me going is goals.

If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough.

Entrena mientras ellos duermen, estudia mientras ellos se divierten, persiste mientras ellos descansen y vive lo que ellos sueñan.

What keeps me going are goals.