Quotes About Ambition

pride, as merely wanting to "eat from the tree of knowledge", when Adam already has knowledge of everything useful to know, even to the point of "naming" (that is to say, to have a controlling knowledge over) all the creatures of the earth? Accordingly, we must look for a deeper pride — the prideful ambition of wanting to be "as gods", equal to the Creator. As psychologist Eric Fromm pointed out

To serve a dictator, one must be gullible and ambitious and have no scruples. One must not mind being insulted by a Führer or else have an intellect so deficient as not to notice insults. Who else would fawningly and forever feed the vanity of a man who never listened but only spouted inane theories of conquest, racism, and economic nonsense, no matter how hypnotic his delivery?

We get into fights or lust for imperial dominion over another nation for reasons of pride.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

The person who would like to make his dreams come true must stay awake.

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

It takes backbone to lead the life you want.

if you don't try at anything, you can't fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so believe me, buddy, you've got nothing to apologize for.

One pirate captain, in his cups, vowed: "If we swing our grappling hooks onto the clouds and attack Heaven itself, I'd aim my first shot at God.

Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a super-hero." "Not yet," I said.

You were wrong. She really is the new general in town." I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction to us standing so close. "Maybe. But, it's okay. You can still be colonel." He arched an eyebrow. "Oh? Did you demote yourself? Colonel's right below general. What's that make you?" I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys I'd swiped when we'd come back inside. "The driver," I said.

Statistics show that most mortals sell their souls for five reasons: sex, money, power, revenge, and love. In that order.

Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.

A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.

You always said I should quit the bookstore and find something else to do," I reminded him. "Yes, but that was because I thought you'd go on to do something respectable. Like become a stripper or the mayor's mistress.

This isn't a game. We don't want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you've spent most of your time here being mediocre.

My mother should have been an attorney. She and Abe could have opened a law firm together.

Just getting by one more day isn't good enough anymore. There must be more to life, more to hope for.

It doesn't matter what it is. Start with something, and go from there. Go until you're unstoppable.

You're too strong, too opinionated, to just let yourself go with the first offer. You deserve more. You deserve to have them lined up in front of you.

People put their dreams off, either because they think it's impossible, or because they'll do it 'someday.'" He

Which is why you need to graduate." "But I dropped out." She snorted. "then drop back in!" "I-what? How?

Great opportunities disguise themselves as small tasks.