Quotes About Ambition

Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

Qué poco le pides a la vida. - Y ese tan poco aún no lo tengo.

The size of action has no value but its aim.

Don't hold back when you know you can go forward.

You can do anything if you get up and try.

How could I explain that it was not all playacting? That I felt more of the male spirit within me than the female - a fierceness that whittled me down to a sharpened spear of ambition. And as a boy, I was applauded, not punished, for such raw energy. It was not beaten out of me for my own good, or worn away by women's chores.

You would choose to have no power with him when you could have all the power in the world with me?" I lifted my chin. "That is not the choice, Ido. I choose the dragons and the land. Not my own ambition. Or yours.

How did someone get so old in his spirit? The easy answers were brutality and ambition. But perhaps it was impossible to know the truth of another persons spirit.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Don't look to where you've come from. Look to where you're going.

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

Katherine of Aragon was a staunch but misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves a good-humoured woman who jumped at the chance of independence; Katherine Howard an empty-headed wanton; and Katherine Parr a godly matron who was nevertheless all too human when it came to a handsome rogue.

Americans think their odds of success, and of rising from the bottom to the top, are much higher than they are

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance.

One had but to look at him to appreciate that he had been doomed from the cradle to end up in the Oval Office: that anyone else should aspire to be – or be – the Chief Executive was quite unthinkable.

With a face and a figure and an acting talent like that, she could have had Hollywood tramping a path of beaten gold to her doorstep.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true." Napoleon Hill

Caesar described

Your real dreams are the ones your dreamed far before you were old enough to understand just how complicated they were to accomplish. How you respond when you find out is part of your character.

No woman (or man) becomes a corporate manager, gets tenure at a university, or is elected to public office by showing their capacity for cooperation, sharing, emotional sensitivity, and nurturing.

Never take no for the anwser when reaching for your dreams.

ao passo que, pela inveja, pelo ciúme e pela ambição, tortura-se voluntariamente e assim aumenta as misérias e as angústias de sua curta existência.