Quotes About Ambition

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

My story, is how a kid that's born into really destitute poverty on a little dirt road in Florida winds up in one of the largest bands in history.

All my life I had thought that if you worked hard you would be rewarded. If you worked your ass off, there would be some reward for you. But now I knew that the reward was just the chance to work your ass off.

He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll never get there.

La vita è piena di lavori duri e ci saranno sempre dei furbi pronti a imbrogliarmi. Be', sarò più duro dei duri e più furbo dei furbi... e farò quadrare i miei conti.

Il talento non esiste, capitano. Esistono soltanto l'ispirazione e l'ambizione.

Work isnt work unless you would rather be doing something else.

If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits.

Decried every day as a feckless thing without initiative or ambition, a thing not to be mentioned in the same breath as private enterprise, government became that thing. First sequester its responsibilities, sell off its functions, grant it no respect; run it into the ground and then declare it incompetent.

Life, he muses, always gives you an excuse to take what you want anyway.

guy trips over the age thirty wire, he realizes that certain things he wanted in his life just aren't going to happen.

The guys of Savino's generation liked what they saw in the movies and wanted to be that. So Lou ain't trying to be Lefty Ruggiero, he's trying to be Al Pacino being Lefty Ruggiero. He ain't trying to be Tommy DeSimone, he's going for Joe Pesci being Tommy DeSimone, not being Jake Amari but James Gandolfini.

Rich or dead. There's worse choices.

Ambitious people tend to get critical assignments. But if having a full plate keeps you from appearing available when a new opportunity arises, you'll be passed over, possibly in favor of some laggard who appears to have plenty of time to take on new duties.

The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness

Or, maybe it would be better to slam seven or eight elevated superhighways across the island, knocking down everything in the way, like Robert Moses wanted.

The story of New York is speed, is movement, movement without stopping, on the go all the time, gotta hustle