Quotes About Ambition

The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren't the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.

What was personal gain but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And what was power but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And once you had that freedom, any more wealth or power actually began to restrict one's options, and reduce one's freedom. One became a servant of one's wealth or power, constrained to spend all one's time protecting it.

So who else did you convince? Well, I got Joe to potty train himself, and then I convinced Anna to leave the kids at home and go with me on a vacation to Jamaica. Roy laughed heartily. Dreams are so funny. Yeah, but bold. So bold. Sometimes I wake up and wonder why I'm not as bold as that all the time. I mean, what have we got to lose?

So what's the point? Why do it all? Why not be content with what you've got? Who were they, that they were so discontent? Who the fuck were they?

The weakness of businessmen was their belief that money was the point of the game;

Maybe the proper response to standing on the side of a planet, in the open air of its atmosphere, very near to the local star, is always terror. Maybe everything humans ever did or planned to do was designed to dodge that terror. Maybe their plan to go to the stars was just one more expression of that terror.

To get what you want, get what you need. When the fire is hot enough, there is no smoke. No fear when in your place. Do not allow anger to poison you. Each person is his own judge. It is not good for anyone to be alone. Everyone who does well must have dreamed something. The one who tells the stories rules the world.

It's not so bad to be a prisoner, if you're working on an escape.

A compulsion, a life with a goal, how could you tell the difference?

Entre todo lo bello que trae consigo ser joven, los sueños son lo más importante

If she could help it, she would totally forget about her penniless, project-housing upbringing. She would forget about the fact that she and her younger sister, Diane, had sometimes gone to bed starving…as well as about being forced to wear secondhand clothing, all of

I don't allow people of your sort to stand in my way. That's what you're leaving out of account. I'm having Christine because it's my right. Do you understand that? If I'm after something, I don't care what I do to make sure that I get it. That's the only law I abide by; it's the only was to get things in this world...With me you just haven't a hope in hell.

run. He is spoilt and his ambition is the work of an idle and over-reaching mother.

When a heart is sufficiently focused and ruthless in its desires...then, for good or evil, the end will justify any means

enkele grote gevoelens blijven het mensenhart bezighouden: eerzucht en liefde, eenzaamheid en honger, vriendschap en angst voor de dood - of verlangen daarnaar.

Wenn er groß war, wollte er Streichholzmacher werden. Das war so schön gefährlich, an seinen Fingern könnte Schwefel hängenbleiben, so daß niemand ihm die Hand zu geben wagte. Er würde bei seinen Kameraden großen Respekt genießen wegen seines unheimlichen Handwerks.

Hvorfor skal vi bli noget? Det blir alle de andre og er allikevel ikke lykkeligere. de har hat strævet med å komme op, men de må se si om efter lønnen. Deres ro er borte, deres nerver tyndslitte, nogen drikker for å greie sig og blir bare værre, de skal til hver tid på gå høie hæler, jeg som bor i en sjå ynker dem.

Was I lazy? Had I not applied for situations, attended lectures, written articles, and worked day and night like a man possessed? Had I not lived like a miser, eaten bread and milk when I had plenty, bread alone when I had little, and starved when I had nothing? Did I live in an hotel? Had I a suite of rooms on the first floor?

Intense desire not only creates its own possibilities, but its own talents. Don't be afraid to do something just because it's impossible.

Follow your dreams. They know the way.

The only way to get to where you want to go is to take a step in that direction. And the best way to do that is to begin.

It was all I could think about. Even as I slept, I dreamt of creating beautiful things.

And maybe, just maybe, you will exceed your wildest dreams.

There are no small parts, only small actors.