Quotes About Ambition

I would show her I wasn't a bit of cobweb in the corner, something to be wiped or straightened, but a rival worth her notice. I would learn her ways and habits, and track her closely until I knew what she was and how to best her, and what precisely it would take to steal my good life back.

to stitch my name on the sky

I wanted my parents to be proud of me and to take me seriously. I also wanted to be well past caring, complete and needing only my own validation.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!

If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that's success for me.

If you don't know where you're going, you're never going to get there.

A country where everybody always running from the next body feeling they's better. But mark my words, one of these days they gon all run out of where-to-run.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

where there is a will there is a way .

When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'

I could have lived through it all if only I continued to have the feeling that at the end of childhood, at the end of adolescence, there was something else in this life that would be mine, that I could make with my bare hands, and once I had made it, I could say, I did this to my life. I made my life so.

Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks, and do what you really want to do.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

I think you can have 10 000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.

isso de querer ser exatamente aquilo que a gente é ainda vai nos levar além

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Sueña el rico en su riqueza, que más cuidados le ofrece; sueña el pobre que padece su miseria y su pobreza; sueña el que a medrar empieza, sueña el que afana y pretende, sueña el que agravia y ofende, y en este mundo, en conclusión, todos sueñan lo que son, aunque ninguno lo entiende.

All who live but dream they act here.

Todos los que viven sueñan