Quotes About Ambition

What Paul did not know was that Laine was broke, and homeless, and sleeping in the back room of Secunda's office, and that he was trying to keep body and soul together with a Tin Pan Alley job, writing songs and recording demos at Essex Music in the hope that other artists would record them and earn him some royalties. He was writing a song when Paul telephoned.

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

The sky is not the limit — the ground is.

Men expect too much, do too little.

This is the natural next step for you. Or are you going to be satisfied running around the country solving crimes like Nancy Drew on steroids?

If you're right and my life sucks, I'll just have to marry an ugly, old billionaire. The first time he sees me naked, which will be on our honeymoon, he'll have a heart attack and die. I'll inherit his entire fortune. You can be my chauffeur.

figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one. —Calamity Jane

Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

What is a Gallagher Girl? She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.

Tell me, Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?" "Alive.

We're seniors." "I know," I said "So aren't you... curious?" "About what?" "About life. Out there. Life!" she said again. "Tell me, Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?" We'd reached another door, and I stopped and looked up at the camera that monitored the entrance, just as I whispered, "Alive.

What is a Gallagher Girl?" Liz asked one final time. "She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy. And now we are at the end of our time at school, and the one thing I know for certain is this: a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.

And yet, she knew she could be.

But Alexandra Petrovic did not become the most powerful politician in Adria by taking no for an answer. "You seem to think that I'm asking, Ms Blakely. Which I'm not." I stop and turn. "And you seem to think that you scare me, Ms Petrovic. Which you don't.

Every girl thinks about growing up in a palace. Few ever ponder living in a cage.

I don't play any game that I can't win.

He didn't need to find a way into the Gallagher Academy, he told himself. He'd be walking through the front doors soon enough.

Tell me, Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?" We'd reached another door, and I stopped and looked up at the camera that monitored the entrance, just as I whispered, "Alive.

Once you want something, everything changes.

If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.

But still they turn from it, all of them, and bat their wings against their own impossible dreams.

No sólo no sabía lo que quería, sino que me daba miedo pensarlo, pero sabía que quería más. Aquella noche descubrí la verdadera naturaleza de la ambición, desear lo que se teme, temer lo que se desea, y desear más temer más, siempre más, como un hambriento que nunca quisiera encontrar un alimento capaz de saciar su hambre. Era muy raro, era terrible, incluso terrorífico, pero eso era exactamente lo que me pasaba

Pero el éxito era una receta poco compatible con el autoengaño.