Quotes About Ambition

As Napoleon later put it, when describing his feelings at this time: "I saw the way to achieve all my dreams. . . . I would found a religion, I saw myself marching on the way to Asia, mounted on an elephant, a turban on my head, and in my hand a new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs. In my enterprises I would have combined the experiences of the two worlds, exploiting the realm of all history for my own profit."7

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? "She drove me to my practice at four in the morning," etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

If I say I'm an oil man, you will agree.

Norman believes in his own abilities. He believes what his parents taught him, that a clever man will rise like yeast if he is careful. He

just as it had in 1930s Hollywood: "It was, I'll do anything, play anything, say anything, wear anything to become a star," says David's friend Scott Richardson, "and there's nothing wrong with that. And there was a tremendous hunger on the part of the audience for it too. It was that moment in time.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

What soul would hesitate to turn the universe upside down in order to be a little more itself?

La meilleure façon de réaliser ses rêves est de se réveiller.

What a pity to see a mind as great as Napoleon's devoted to trivial things such as empires, historic events, the thundering of cannons and of men; he believed in glory, in posterity, in Caesar; nations in turmoil and other trifles absorbed all his attention ... How could he fail to see that what really mattered was something else entirely?

The best way to make your own dreams come true is to wake up

La meilleure façon de réaliser ses rêves est de se réveiller. The best way of making your dreams come true, is to wake up.

I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

From the top of Mount Everest "Next time I am taking the lift."

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.

If you have a dream, FOLLOW IT.

Instead of humbly following along behind Jesus, I've let myself get sidetracked by a myriad of temptations: overly ambitious creative projects, delusions about my own importance, worrisome relationships, secret small addictions, stubborn resentments, and a hundred forms of self-indulgence.

Sometimes our dreams can be the most revealing things about us. Who we are when no one's looking, who we believe we're truly supposed to be, if we can get there.

What do you mean to do?' 'Make literary history, I guess.

I have so many schemes about writing – so much I want to see and feel and do.

He wanted everything there was to have, and more than that.

We had both tried for the sun, and had fallen, lurching to earth again, tasting melted wax and sorrow. Denys wasn't hers, or mine.