Quotes About Ambition

I'm not here to ensure peace in Europe; I'm here to make Germany great again. If that can be done peacefully, well and good. If not, we'll have to do it differently.

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans.

Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Holding onto history is not nearly as important as where we're headed. Pride matters less than power.

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50 000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

The trouble with the rat race is even if you win, you're still a rat. —Lily Tomlin

He was doing what he had always wanted to do: code games. And he was happy, in the moment as always, not thinking at all about what would come next. If he could be here working on games with enough money for food and shelter, that was good enough for him. As he told the other guys on one of his very first days, put him in a closet with a computer, a pizza, and some Diet Cokes, and he would be fine.

After hearing the kids at the Ground discuss the Pro Tour, Finkel burned to compete. But the event was invite only. And who was going to invite a total unknown? Rather than sit by the side, he picked up the phone and called Wizards. "My name is Jon Finkel," he loudly declared, "and I was wondering if I could come to the Pro Tour." What the hell, the staff at Wizards thought, if the kid had the balls to call up and ask for an invitation, how could they say no? Careful

If we can get this done," Romero said, "this is going to be the fucking coolest game that the planet Earth has ever fucking seen in its entire history!

Everything is bullshit! he thought. Why did I hire these people? It shouldn't have been this big. This was too many people, too much money. It should have been just me and Tom and a small team of people with a common goal. It should have been like the way it was when we weren't biz guys. We were just gamers.

She suspected that she was quite like Helena Kraft in that she was capable and ambitious and wanted to get a pat on the back from her superiors. That was not necessarily always a good thing though. With that tendency, if you operate in an unhealthy culture you risk becoming just as unhealthy yourself and — who knows, perhaps it is the will to please that leads people to crime just as often as evil or greed.

will be the hunter and not the hunted.

Of course people resented those who exude such boundless energy. They make the rest of us feel small and feeble in comparison.

I have undertaken this project precisely because I am unqualified to do so.

Just make sure if you fail, you did what you wanted to do.

I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

Always to be pushing out like this, beyond what I know cannot be the limits - what else should a man's life be?

Every fear hides a wish.

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.