Quotes About Ambition

Wilma was amazed that she, a sixteen-year-old high school girl, had a chance to be a part of the Olympics

I touch the fuzzy letter I. The pins he's earned for varsity and captain. This is what we care about. How many pins we have. We want to be MVPs. The most valuable of all. What's so wrong with that? It's stupid, Beth would say. That's what's wrong with it.

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.

There will always be some who see excellence and envy it instead of striving to emulate it.

She wasn't famous then," Pat said. "Nobody is. You never know until too late. They're just people like everyone else. Anyone you know might become famous. Or not. You don't know which ones will make a difference or if any of them will. You might become famous yourself. You might change the world.

Maybe some of the masters really believed they could make it work, but I think what they really wanted wasn't to do it themselves but for somebody else to have made it real and for them to have been born there.

Melhor um pássaro voando do que dois na mão!... Eis a versão do provérbio, para uso dos fortes, dos capazes de ideal... - É a versão dos otários, também.

Success doesn't depend on your past or your present. Success begins when you are willing to do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

Continually setting goals and striving to achieve them is what makes life worthwhile!

In the end, [Sonia] Sotomayor had been in the right place at the right time for the right president. She had the tickets and the people: Princeton, Yale, Morgenthau, Calabresi. Fortified by the dreams of her mother, her personal smarts, and intense determination, Sotomayor had defied predictions from her youth.

As [Sonia] Sotomayor wrote in her autobiography, once she set herself on the path of a legal career, 'I saw no reason to stint on ambition.

A worldly wise and somewhat overbearing Lucy asks the good-hearted and somewhat naive Charlie Brown, 'Charlie, what would you rather do, be captain of the baseball team or marry the cute redheaded girl?' And Charlie replies innocently, 'Why can't I do both?' to which Lucy responds, 'It's the real world, Charlie Brown.' "60

I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

I've heard of men who were permanently stymied in their careers because their wives flatly refused to leave their home towns. That's not right. A man's job has to come first and women have to draw on their natural adaptability.

Once we demanded two chickens in every pot, then two cars in every garage. Now families want two homes—one a retreat for weekends and vacations—and maybe a boat or an airplane. So it follows that they need two pay checks.

preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;

There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your heart's desire. The other is getting it.

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

have been aiming for her dad

The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.