Quotes About Ambition

Da giovane è facile credere che ciò che desideri sia ciò che ti meriti, è facile convincersi che se davvero vuoi qualcosa, è tuo sacrosanto diritto ottenerla.

Call her Betty Fucking Crocker, because the cake was so going to be worth the bake.

Very well. What do you do as a mercenary?" "I specialize in usurping thrones. They call me the kingmaker." Bragging now?

Is it so bad being directed if you like where you're headed?

All at once Mari understood why people fought losing battles —because if you want something badly enough, you can't do anything else but fight for it.

With all my dreams having come true, what will I dream of now ?

If you want to reach something badly enough, you will.

Sabine was now sixteen and old enough to begin doing what any girl like her would." Brazen Mortal crossed her arms over her chest and knowingly said, "Prostitution." "Wrong. Commercial fishing." "Really?" "Noooo," Sabine said. "Fortune-telling.

The Prince of Shadow is no longer a prince, dear. He's as good as king of this realm.

Everybody says we got no hope of goan anywhere. You ever think we deserve better than the Basin?" Without hesitation, she says, "Non." I ponder it over another sip. "Ouais, me neither." My eyes blurred with tears. Yet Jack had made plans to get out of the Basin and fight for a better life. He'd intended to fly in the face of everything he'd grown up believing. That struck me as unimaginably brave.

Everyone will just figure this week was Evie's red-light at the Y. When I'm OTR, I scourge the halls like Godzilla. Your little la-la-land thing is cute compared to the breathing of actual fire.

The Sun and Fortune were taking me to the Emperor.

Audacity made kings, and it was time to reclaim his crown.

We are vain and we are dishonest because it is necessary to triumph over other vain and dishonest persons.

Jiminy had held vague ambitions of becoming a private eye or a feisty attorney. But these aspirations had taken a backseat to the day-to-day responsibilities of just getting by.

Life with an unreliable mother had robbed her of the sense of security necessary for upward mobility. It had rendered her anxious and shortsighted.

Strife and chaos always traveled hand in hand with opportunity, though. It was just a question of whether one was strong and clever enough to take advantage.

I understand—" I gasp. ". . . and you will not stand in my way." "I will not stand in your way," I parrot. It's all I can manage.

You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.

The throne belongs to whoever is able to take it.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

Oh, I wonder if I shall ever be able to do anything worth while in the way of writing.

And although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

E embora valha muito a pena ter ambições, elas não são conquistadas a pouco custo: demandam seu quinhão de trabalho e abnegação, ansiedade e desânimo.