Quotes About Ambition

I would have more luck trying to steal the moon. At least I knew where to look for the moon at night.

ain't much for listenen. Nothin' plugs a man's ears like money.

First you set yourself to rights. And then your house. And then your corner of the sky. And after that . . .

La habría seguido y habría intentado resolverlo todo, pero ella ya estaba fuera, y faltaba menos de una hora para mi entrevista de admisiones. Además, si trataba de ayudar a todas las mujeres que Ambrose había traumatizado, no tendría tiempo para comer ni para dormir.

Eso es lo que de verdad distingue a la nobleza: el convencimiento de que pueden hacer cualquier cosa, ya sea teñir pieles, herrar un caballo, manejar un torno de cerámica, arar un campo... Solo necesitan querer hacerlo.

Isn't this the Eolian? I had heard that this is where pride pays silver and plays golden.

weigh your risks. How badly do you want it, how badly are you willing to be burned?

Damn little gadflies think they can buy the sun out the sky, don't they?" "This particular one could probably afford it," I said grimly. "And the moon too, if he wanted the matched set to use as bookends.

I am the king of good ideas gone terribly wrong.

wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

It had the look of an ambitious architectural breed of lichen that was trying to cover as many acres as it could.

He had used only a drop of his perfume for his performance in Grasse. There was enough left to enslave the whole world. If he wanted, he could be feted in Paris, not by tens of thousands, but by hundreds of thousands of people; or could walk out to Versailles and have the King kiss his feet; write the Pope a perfumed letter and reveal himself as the new Messiah; be anointed in Notre-Dame as Supreme Emperor before kings, or even as God come to earth.

El sueño habría puesto en peligro el espíritu del éxito

When it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immortality, or, more succinctly, wickedness but because of his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to the domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.

Don't ever be sorry for following your dream. Of all emotions, regret is the most futile.

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

Not all dreams need to be realized.

I imagined a lot of things. That I would shine. That I'd be good. I'd dwell bareheaded on a summit turning a wheel that would turn the earth undetected, amongst the clouds, I would have some influence; be of some avail.

We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality.

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

Our dreams are a second life.

Not all dreams need to be realized. That was what Fred used to say. We accomplished things that no one would ever know.