Quotes About Ambition

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

Ambition, while there was nothing wrong with it, was still a far cry from power. Ambition got you out of bed to make money. Power meant you could make money without ever leaving bed.

No road is paved with gold unless you make it your own treasure.

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

Well, it's nice to have a dream. But it's even nicer when there's a remote possibility of it coming true.

Because I don't have everything I want. Not even close.

That's the thing about the horizon. Every step leads you toward it, but you can never quite reach it. But maybe that's a good thing? Maybe it's nature's way of reminding us to never give up--to always keep striving.

Our cause is much greater. And now,with you on board, it won't be long before we rule the Middleworld, the Lowerworld, and ultimately the Upperworld too. My dad's really gonna be proud of me then." His eyes blaze at the idea,proving once again,he's a psychopath.

It's never enough to just accumulate knowledge and skills. It's what a person does with what he knows that defines who he is." "Every man must decide the kind of path he'll walk.

no es necesario nacer en la buena vida para llegar a tener una.

My mind was not that of a conqueror, but that of a cow that spends its life chewing contentedly in the meadow of invoices, waiting for the train of eternal grace to pass by. How good it felt to exist without pride of ambition. To live in hibernation.

El poder no me interesa. Reinar es mucho más hermoso

Para qué iba a hacer un esfuerzo? Yo ya estoy bien así... Para aceptar hacer un esfuerzo, es necesario no estar satisfecho con el destino de uno.

Es un hombre de negocios. Sus ambiciones pueden valorarse en dinero. Eso no resulta nada elevado

Quiere vivir en Bélgica, allí está su trabajo. No tiene mi pasión por tu país. -Igual que Rika. Japón no la hace soñar.

Se sentir bien est une ambition absurdement exagérée quand se sentir est déjà si rare

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

When I write my autobiography after 20-25 years, I want 2014 to be the weakest year of my life.

I think, in a lot of ways, Kanye's superpower is his weakness - if you tell him he can't do something, he's going to go hard at it.

Politicians will be politicians, they will have a weakness at times for not seeing beyond their nose.

Entrepreneurs typically have an instinct for smelling opportunity, but that same killer instinct can quickly turn to weakness when it becomes a distraction from primary goals.

I was a milksop as a kid. I had no confidence, no guts. I felt I was going to be someone else someday - someone who didn't have my weaknesses.

One of my weaknesses is impatience. I just have this aching need to get great things done. Can't stand slow change.