Quotes About Ambition

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

I just wanted to do something important.

Stay a dreamer, and you'll never have your dream; get down in the nitty-gritty, and when you get your dream you see what horseshit it was in the first place.

It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.

Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

But just because you can never reach it, doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.

Most revolutionaries neither exactly know--nor knew--what they want: Form or Unform.

States have no goodness. They suppress these villains here and promote those villains there, with no aim but self-aggrandizement.

It was a sad truth that all the masses of men in their causes would be led by ambitious men, by power-hungry, cunningly self serving men, rather than by the humanists, the idealists; and better led for it, he thought.

Herkes istedi?i mesle?i seçecektir. Ressam olmak isteyenler reklamc?, yazar olmak isteyenler mühendis, mimar olmak isteyenler iktisatç?, meyhaneci olmak isteyenler hukukçu, hukukçu olmak isteyenler tezgâhtar, adam olmak isteyenler u?ak ve diledi?i gibi ya?amak isteyenler rezil olmayacaklard?r.

Hüsamettin Albay?m! Hamlet ya?asayd? ?imdi tümgeneral olmu?tu, de?il mi?

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Your desires,           Whether or not you achieve them           Will determine who you become.

His mistake was in seeing her as a young girl. She was already a missile, armed and targeted.

I began writing about power because I had so little.

Human beings are good at creating hells for themselves, even out of richness.