Quotes About Ambition

My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words and your faith stronger than your feelings.

I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.

Urban man lives only in dreaming.

Power and ambition were two edges of the same sword, as she knew herself. She wanted to be powerful so she could protect her people; she had people because she was powerful. And there were different kinds of power: the still, pent power of the seer; the free, raging power of the butcher-bird. But did there have to be only one path?

Hild felt herself split in two: the butcher-bird thinking, I could take him, and the seer, I serve the king.

Pray no one is clever enough to look beyond the child to her mother and the terrible ambition there.

She had dreamt of eagles, she said, like to the eagles of Gwynedd, nesting over Lindum, with one eagle pushing its brother from the nest.

He must find out what the witch woman, the child's mother, was up to with Osric, he of the kingly ambition. He'd heard talk. And this child would soon be living in very dangerous times indeed.

It occurred to Hild that both Hereswith and Cian now had their own paths. She had only her mother's dream.

His rookies had once been more than entries in a ledger, cogs in his cost-effectiveness machine. I tried to remember the last time I had seen him shout or laugh. I failed. Twenty years in the police force had killed everything, bit by bit: his ambition, thin his passion, then his wife.

Bravery is relative. Perhaps it's the same with dreams.

What do I want to do with drawing? I want to draw Wonder Woman every day. That was the moment. It changed everything.

Man tends to exercise all his powers. The impossible seems to him the only legitimate limit. A civilized man, however, is one who for various reasons refuses to do everything he can.

La técnica no cumple los viejos sueños del hombre, sino los remeda con sorna.

There are fewer ambitious individuals in the world today than individuals who believe they are morally obliged to be ambitious.

The surest ways of winning are more disastrous than any defeat.

Among the vices of democracy one must count the impossibility of someone occupying an important position there without it being his ambition.

Power more surely corrupts the man who covets it than the man who exercises it.

Reason, truth, justice, tend not to be man's goals, but the names he gives to his goals.

To be useful to society" is the ambition, or excuse, of a prostitute.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE