Quotes About Ambition

Unless people have a vision of something beyond the bounds of their own natures, they cannot transcend their self-interest.

Chains are chains, even made of gold, they just tie you.

Why am I so diffident and apprehensive when it comes to something that means a lot to me?

Goals are what we do. Purposes are why we do what we do.

What do you do when your dreams are about to come true?" she asks. "No one ever tells you. They tell you to chase them, but what happens when you actually catch one?" "You enjoy it. Do your best, try not to be a dick.

Now that I know there's more? I want to have more. If there really is more to life, I want to live all of it. And why shouldn't all of us? Don't we deserve that?

That was how the world worked, wasn't it? You set your sights on something, and life came along with a sucker punch.

Being the best gives you nowhere to go but down. It also makes you a target, for if someone else wants to be the best, they have to beat you, don't they?

What do you do when your dreams are about to come true? No one ever tells you. They tell you to chase them, but what happens when you actually catch one?

What do you do when your dreams are about to come true?" she asks. "No one ever tells you. They tell you to chase them, but what happens when you actually catch one?

my father had been brutal on me, but with him out of my life I had in turn become tough on myself. I knew enough about the game to be a pro but had never learned to have fun at it.

Se não se consegue acabar um trabalho com vinte e sete balas e uma faca, então é porque se está no negócio errado.

This country was theirs for the taking, and in the span of a single lifetime true greatness could be achieved. They spent their days at Erasmus surrounded by traces of great men who had come before, images and names, legacies etched in stone.

hate to say this but you could become the Pablo Escobar of the new millennium.

Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?

Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.

Ambrose turned on his heel and stormed off, but before he made it through the door, Elodin burst out singing: 'He's a well-bred ass, you can see it in his stride! And for a copper penny he will let you take a ride!

Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.

She was a greedy thing sometimes. Wanting for herself. Twisting the world all out of proper shape. Pushing everything about with the weight of her desire.

El orgullo herido puede alentar a un hombre a hacer cosas maravillosas

Todos nos convertimos en lo que pretendemos ser.

I sow salt because the choice is between weeds and nothing. - Lanre

She raised her own glass, filled with a deep red wine. "To Ambrose Jakis," she said with sudden fierceness. "May he fall into a well and die.

How could I even begin? I would have more luck trying to steal the moon.