Quotes About Ambition

I was no longer satisfied with the small change of experience, which had hitherto contented me. I wanted to deal in larger sums.

Christopher Columbus could greedily avow before those Most Catholic Monarchs of Spain that "gold is most excellent - with gold is treasure made; he who has it can do whatever he wants.

Heaping praise upon the three boys who grew up all bright and ambitious, who earned scholarships to good colleges. Commending them for leaving the Midwest. Yet everyone was thankful when the oldest, Dagou Chao, returned to Haven.

wet cap and lets it drip on the table. "Bag of cash!" he scoffs. "She's still buying into Strycker's case. Strycker's all about appealing to clichés: The bag of cash. The American Dream. The inhuman laborer. The ambitious and ungrateful son who can't appreciate what's been done for him.

Because self-hatred is as galvanizing as ambition.

Because he isn't cherished, he's allowed to aim beyond his parents' petty goals. He can leave all of them behind.

Gibney, we gotta win this fucking Tour de France.

Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.

If I'd have wanted civilization I'd have stayed in Tennessee and wrote poetry for a living

Wantin' takes too much time...I'd rather be working.

Basically Jake just dreamed his way through life and somehow got by with it.

She wasn't going to succeed in newspapers if she didn't ask the big questions when she could.

Not too many men, in his experience, had achieved a great thing, even one. Very few ever achieved more than one, he knew.

Once you got rich you'd have to spend all your time staying rich, and that's hard thankless work. I tried it a while and quit, myself. If I can keep ten dollars ahead of the bills I'll be doin' all right.

He had done hard work all his life and was ready to stop, but he couldn't stop.

Everything starts as somebody's dream.

travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Hindmost? A head turned back. Sometimes there's no point in giving up.

Skyscrapers, said Speaker. With so much room on the Ringworld, why build so tall? To prove they can do it. No, that's asinine, said Louis. There'd be no point, if they could build something like the Ringworld itself. Perhaps the tall buildings came later, during the decline of civilization.

The target is everywhere.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris

Så rusla vi hjemover. Snakka om alt vi skulle gjøre. Om The Snafus. Om hvor berømte vi skulle bli. Om sommeren, enda vinteren bare såvidt hadde begynt, om alle somrene i våre liv. Vi snakka om når vi skulle begynne på gymnaset og om når vi blei ferdige med skolen for godt. Vi blei svære i kjeften og vakre fugler fløy ut av ansiktene våre. Vi tok framtida på forskudd og den så sabla bra ut.

Don't say to become a millionaire, because if you were honest with yourself, you are probably not willing to do what it would really take to become a millionaire.)

Most of the time a person wants something more than anything else. You can tell because at the end of the day that's what they're willing to fight for -Dan