Quotes About Ambition

Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.

I hope I'll never get ambitious enough to try anything. It's so much nicer to be damned sure I could do it better than other people - and I might not could if I tried...

We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our guilty pleasures and selfish ambitions. But in reality, it means dying inwardly to whatever has control over us. The thing that really controls us may not be what we want. It may be what we fear. Fear can dominate our lives just as strongly as desire.

And I ought to stop dreaming about it and start doing it. Right now.

Thread and cloth were ordinary – worse than ordinary; they were women's affairs. But letters! Letters were for lords and kings. And something in me blazed fiery jealous and joyous at the thought: Why ever should they have what I did not?

Well, she was clever to make a living with what she loves," Louise remarked. "Isn't that what we all hope for?

ten-year, five-year and one-year goals, broken down all the way to daily task lists. He kept a catalogue of people he hoped to meet, all corporate movers and shakers or folks who could advance his career. Ruthlessly organized and efficient, he was a top corporate lawyer at a premier

Dedication and hardwork is a great combination to start with.

Life is a dream but the controls are in your hands.

Your thinking should always be beyond your imagination. The world around you will acknowledge you.

Never keep someone on a job who likes it too much. She knows when she sees the single flash of that gleeful and hungry face that they're not here to raid for what they can find. They're not here for anything that can be given.

The candidates hit the floor like Travolta, ready with their moves, knowing that the spotlight is going to find them and illuminate every glistening thing: both sequins and sweat.

I didn't think so," she says. "Let's work together on this one, OK, buddy? No sense throwing each other to the wolves." Margot is thinking about her future. You're gonna pump my gas someday, Daniel. I've got big plans. "Yeah," he says. "Yeah." She thinks, That is how a man speaks. And that is why.

someone a couple of years younger than her. She wants

I always fancied having a destiny,

In retrospect, his ambition to become an actual global dictator definitely should have been a red flag.

tantalizing possibilities. She hesitated, feeling trapped by a combination of her own desire to try everything, and a

If you want to change who you are, change what you want

I am the kind of man who takes what he wants. I am the kind of man who fights for what he has. I am the man who fucks his wife on his dead ex-fiancée's bed, because the past can't contain me and I mold the future to my liking.

Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him'?" I whisper-quote like I'm dreaming. Then I shake my head. "I was in Macbeth

Le mot impossible n'est pas français.

Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.

Gentlemen. If you're going to take Vienna, take it.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.