Quotes About Ambition

In this business, he who shot last died first

we have to be ambitious in our goals, imaginative in our means, ruthless in our evaluations, and aggressive in funding successes and starving failures.

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.

What is the arc of the plot of one's life? I want! I want!

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jest jeszcze przeszkoda psychiczna: nie mam woli. - Nieprawda. Masz du?o woli. - Tak? - Tak, znajdujesz tysiÄ…c powodów, ?eby unikn?? tego, co postanowiÅ'eÅ›. W rzeczywistoÅ›ci masz blokadÄ™ woli, ale to zÅ'a wola. Szkoda, bo Å›cie?ka, którÄ… mo?na wej?? na szczyt, jest tÄ… samÄ…, którÄ… siÄ™ z niego schodzi.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

He dreamed of becoming a fully illustrated man.

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

Your career has another five years, maybe, she says, if you're lucky. According to who? I ask. According to every actress who's come before you. So I turn my focus to every actress coming after me. I

The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.

It was about this time I began to seriously try to write. I commenced a tragedy which I called "Seneca." I do not remember anything about the work, except that it was laid in ancient Rome, and that Seneca was a philosopher and a senator. I showed the first act to Father, and he gave it back to me with a smile, and the opinion that "it might have been worse."

For the woman within, if she be of noble strain, is never content with what she has attained; she unceasingly presses forward, in lively hope of some better way, or some more tangible truth.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?