Quotes About Ambition

Good luck is a sham. True success requires sacrifice.

Her secret fear? Maybe she didn't tried hard enough.

La buena suerte es una farsa. El éxito verdadero requiere sacrificio.

Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434).

Well," he said at last, "if you guys elect me leader, you must be even crazier than I am. So let's build a spankin' hot war machine!

They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.

The suitors: a hundred of the greediest, evilest cut-throats who'd ever lived.

Love should be your top priority, primary objective, and greatest ambition. Love is not a good part of your life; it's the most important part. The Bible says, "Let love be your greatest aim.

Sometimes it takes years, but eventually you discover that the greatest hindrance to God's blessing in your life is not others, it is yourself — your self-will, stubborn pride, and personal ambition. You cannot fulfill God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

the greatest hindrance to God's blessing in your life is not others, it is yourself — your self-will, stubborn pride, and personal ambition. You cannot fulfill God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

A young man in his twenties wrote, "I feel like a failure because I'm struggling to become something, and I don't even know what it is. All I know how to do is to get by. Someday, if I discover my purpose, I'll feel I'm beginning to live.

He's always been a politician. He was born a politician. No. Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he had chosen to become.

fellow alumni, a fact which Murdo said "just goes to show." Gloria thought that it didn't go to show anything except, possibly, that they were greedier and more ruthless than their former classmates.

Of course, the Führer promised a lot of things. It was what had got him where he was today.

If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.

His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already.

She had resolved to never take another step backward.

Since I was a girl I always felt as if I would like to write stories. I never had that ambition or shine to make a name; first place because I knew what time and labor it meant to acquire a literary style. Second place, because whenever I wanted to write a story I never could think of a plot.

He talked of the old college days when he and Gaston had been a good deal to each other; of the days of keen and blind ambitions and large intentions. Now there was left with him, at least, a philosophic acquiescence to the existing order--only a desire to be permitted to exist, with now and then a little whiff of genuine life, such as he was breathing now.

I ain't the Princess Pea But someday I will be, The Pea, ha-hee. Someday, I will be.

Let her have her dangerous will.

As soon as Beverly said the words, Raymie knew that they were true. Louisiana's singing would win any contest. And Raymie wanted Louisiana to win. She wanted her to become Little Miss Central Florida Tire" (DiCamillo 212).

You're not afraid to take risks." "Neither are you, Diana. Don't ever lose that quality. Once a person stops pushing and growing, she is as dead in the spirit as if she were dead in the flesh.

From the table, far enough away that they thought I couldn't hear, Bintou whispered to Wasa, "I can't believe she talks to him like that!" "I'm going to learn to talk like that!" murmured Wasa. "I can't run about and hit people like Cat does, but I can become an orator like Cousin Bee. I'm going to become a hero and cause trouble all over everywhere!" "Girls!