Quotes About Ambition

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Cora ci stava mettendo gli spaghetti nel piatto, e lui disse « basta » dopo due forchettate. Non mangiava molto, come tutti gli ambiziosi. Sapeva che il mangiare addormenta.

To follow, without halt, one aim There's the secret of success.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

The fiancé was in the same SA division, not because he couldn't live without a brown shirt, but because he wanted to be able to work, to get married, to inherit his parents' farm, and to live in peace, which he would certainly have been prevented from doing otherwise.

People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.

he is a man who wants the power and fame that he feels he has been unjustly denied.

It is easier to kill than to heal. It is easier to destroy than to preserve. It is easier to tear down than to build. Those who feed on destructive emotions and ambitions and deny the responsibilities that are the price of wielding power can bring down everything you care for and would protect. Be on guard, always.

W-what are you?" Selena looked down at her rival. "What you should have been and never were. The Queen of the Witches.

You can plant a dream.

You see the sun?—I built that.

If I am a fool, he said, Then let me be a great fool and not a small one.

Too low they build who build beneath the stars. MRS. CHARLES E. COWMAN , Streams in the Desert

As Mark and Tom continued to practice together, they both knew they wanted to pursue the band as something more than just a way to kill a summer's night. And perhaps take their relationship itself to the next level, to finally become more than just friends...The feelings were there, it was just all so confusing...

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and thrive. Not everyone needed the same driving ambition that had fueled him. That had led him to being possibly the richest man in London without a title in his lineage -- all earned in under a decade. That had given him the power to change lives. But a person needed to have the drive to change his own life.

Better to leave dreams behind and go forward with purpose.

Trant's deep need to climb ever upward, crushing anyone in his path, the qualities, while making Trant an interesting associate at times, at others made him decidedly predictable and boring. After all, a ladder contained a single directional path. Someone like Trant rarely tried the twisting vines, tree branches, and handholds to the side.

Only dreamers can teach us to soar.

The pursuit of power is overwhelmingly and universally a male trait. To rise in the hierarchy, men are much more prepare than women to make sacrifices of their own time, pleasure, relocations health, safety, or emotions.

When you pursue the impossible, you will achieve incredible things.

As they say in the movies, I got here the hard way, with no education and no dough, and whatever I am I am because I wrote it.

Personally I'd give ten thousand bucks to be a psychiatrist and not a writer.

She owns her own hunger.