Quotes About Ambition

Even though are canvass was small, still we could paint a masterpiece.

what is renoun?more false than hope by dreams engendered.

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

You need to add a new voice inside your head, one that says, "So what?" What if you don't get married by 30? So what? What if you haven't paid off your loans or debt by 35? So what? What if you're not a stand-out success by 28? So what? If you were to achieve everything you wanted in life by the age of 30, then what would you do for the next fifty years? You have time. You don't have to get to everything right now.

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction.

The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment." "What is it?" "Impossibility.

This will do, said he, and from this letter, which might have ruined me, I will make my fortune. Now to the work I have in hand. And after having assured himself that the prisoner was gone, the deputy procureur hastened to the house of his betrothed.

A man is bound to make for himself in this world, that fortune which heaven had refused him at his birth.

Danglers alone was content and joyous, he had got rid of an enemy and preserved his situation on board the Pharaon; Danglers was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an ink-stand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction, and he estimated the life of a man as less precious than a figure, when that figure could increase, and that life would diminish, the total of the amount.

I never play, because I am not rich enough to afford to lose or poor enough to want to win. Maximilien Morrel, The Count of Monte Cristo

Very well, young man, very well, Treville went on, I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

Dantes was on the way he desired to follow, and was moving towards the end he wished to achieve; his heart was in a fair way of petrifying in his bosom.

You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all.

Danglars was one of those calculating men who are born with a pen behind their ear and an inkwell instead of a heart.

No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer.

So when someone would love to see you fail, forgive them, and draw upon that motivation to succeed.

Chicago was "the only great city in the world to which all its citizens have come for the one common, avowed object of making money

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Pigeon, your wings are no good.

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

Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.

The important thing is to capture your energy, enthusiasm, and drive. You know what I mean.