Quotes About Ambition

My dream was to go to Syracuse. I wanted to be a part of the Orangemen. I actually thought I was going there up until around 10th grade when I knew that wasn't really going to happen, so I started pursuing rap.

I like to improve all the time and never let complacency creep into my system.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

It's not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to - to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor.

A full stomach can't run. At

Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.

Once you relize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best

Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to forget who you are and settle for being something horrible like an--an accountant!

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.

We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. No one said we wouldn't have to struggle first.

Keep going, no matter what." --Reginald F. Lewis: Lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, Chairman, CEO ---

Fidler himself was a personable young man who'd been a New Labor MP till "the sheer meaningless gab of it" had driven him to resign and spend more time with his money by becoming a TV personality.

Anderson Cooper every night dreams about getting my job permanently really.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

That's the biz, Sweetheart.

When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things...

Midnight is not in everyman's reach.

He thought against Napoleon, in both senses of the word. See how fruitful resentment can be, and how it can make one

I do not like money, either for itself or for what it can buy, since I want nothing we know about.

he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

We were as competitive as only a child state can be.

Not everyone likes a ceiling," her mommy said. "Some of us like the sky.

There is nothing wrong with wanting something more, but this was the place that employed your parents, kept you safe, healthy, and educated you. It's the place your mom tucked you into bed, and you

That's the thing that you never have understood, Stella. You've run from your life. All your life that's been your MO. You've always wanted something more.