Quotes About Ambition

Could she give Doro what he wanted—what she herself had wanted for so long—children who would not die?

Then, finally, true success. Isaac.

Comecei a escrever sobre poder porque era algo que eu tinha muito pouco

I'm a fifty-three year old writer who can remember being a ten-year old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year old writer. I am also comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of Seattle - 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.

That scares me to death sometimes -- always feeling driven to do something I don't know how to do.

People who are intelligent, ambitious, and at the same time, in the grip of odd obsessions can be dangerous.

Oh hell. If I could just find a balance between holding back too much and pushing, poaching.

I'd rather have the city lights back myself, the sooner the better. But we can afford the stars.

I'm also comfortably asocial--a hermit in the middle of Seattle--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.

People who are intelligent, ambitious, and at the same time, in the grip of odd obsessions can be dangerous. When they occur, they inevitably upset things.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

Deserve your dream.

Merece lo que sueñas.

You need to accept the fact that you're not the best and have all the will to strive to be better than anyone you face

Dreams do come true for those who never give up

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.

Professional men, they have no cares; Whatever happens, they get theirs.

Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how. Some people think they will eventually wear diamonds instead of rhinestones Only by everlastingly keeping their noses to their ghrinestones

Were it not for frustration and humiliation I suppose the human race would get ideas above its station.