Quotes About Ambition

Stop being so practical. Start doing the things you have always wanted to do.

Every dream starts small. But you need to start. Today.

I envied Elizabeth- but I admired Groot. Because if you truly believed in the lightning bolts, why not do everything in your power to take them for yourself.

Girls had to believe in everything but their own power, because if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might.

I'd become a bully. The something Ã¢â'¬â€œ the resolve Ã¢â'¬â€œ that had let me send in those first pieces, put them in the envelope and post them; that resolve Ã¢â'¬â€œ it was something like that Ã¢â'¬â€œ or ambition; whatever it was, it was gone. Ambition was a decision, not a trait. There were no more decisions. I couldn't think of anything that I could do.

Look out for number one and try not to step in number two.

We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.

2001: A Space Odyssey is not about a goal, but about a quest, a need.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

The two goals of liberation and social justice are not obviously compatible, any more than were the liberty and equality advocated at the French Revolution. If liberation involves the liberation of individual potential, how do we stop the ambitious, the energetic, the intelligent, the good-looking and the strong from getting ahead, and what should we allow ourselves by way of constraining them?

Conservatism as we know it today is a distinctively modern outlook, shaped by the Enlightenment and by the emergence of societies in which the 'we' of social membership is balanced at every point against the 'I' of individual ambition.

There is, in the circumstances of modern life, only one solution to the problem of resentment, and that is social mobility. The worst thing that the state can do is to create those traps – the poverty trap, the welfare trap, the education trap – which deprive people of the motives and the skills to improve their lot, and retain them in a state of permanent discontented dependence on a world that they cannot fully enter. In

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.

Wishes, wishes. Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true

I don't know that I ever wanted greatness on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something - or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.

Power is like money... You can usually get it if you're competent and it's the only thing you want in life.

Wishes, wishes, I told him, Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true.

it is because I am a man who occasionally aspires to things beyond the belly and the phallus.

What an enormous chutzpah you possess, I told him. What makes you better than the rest of us, and more fit to rule? The fact that I was able to occupy the throne, he replied. Try and take it.

Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true.

He has never been satisfied to be a mere spectator at anything. I'd take an oath he even plots in his sleep.

don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something — or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.

I want to be both pathetic and admirable, I want to be at the same time a child and an adult. Thereby I gamble, I take a risk: for it is always possible that the other will simply ask no question whatever about these unaccustomed glasses; that the other will see, in the fact, no sign.