Quotes About Ambition

Self-interest usually governed political loyalties.

Some professionals will do almost anything for a chance to work on tough tasks.

know winning isn't everything and if all you care about is winning, you'll feel empty—but I haven't won enough to feel empty yet.

You won't accomplish anything sitting around wishing. You've got to do things.

We should not have the ambition to label as mental disorder every inconvenient or distressing aspect of childhood.

that blue flame burnning? Industry!

I wake up in the morning with a dream in my eyes

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. —JOHN WEBSTER Grant

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.

The sudden acquisition of power does not go to the head, but to the groin. In some, it promotes lust; in others, supplants it. Those on whom its effect is purely cerebral may indeed be counted as fortunate.

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

AMATEUR, n. A public nuisance who mistakes taste for skill, and confounds his ambition with his ability.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of an edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.

Poverty and zeal are an upper and a nether millstone.  It is dangerous to make a third in that kind of sandwich.

PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Si deseas que tus sueños se hagan realidad, ¡despierta!

It is your duty in life to save your dream.

Joe Abercrombie

The sad truth is, men love to follow a man other men fear," said Clover. "Makes them feel fearsome, too. We tell the odd fond story of the good men. The straight edges. Your Rudd Threetrees, your Dogmen. But it's the butchers men love to sing of. The burners and the blood-spillers. Your Cracknut Whirruns and your Black Dows. Your Bloody-Nines. Men don't dream of doing the right thing, but of ripping what they want from the world with their strength and their will.

One cannot climb high without standing on others, and all she had wanted was to reach the top. What a waste it all seemed now. There is nothing at the summit, in the end, but a long drop.

When men spoke of changing the world, they always meant to suit their own interests.

Give Yarvi the knife since he has just one hand to hold it. One hand, perhaps, but the blood of kings in his veins!" "It's keeping it there that worries me," said Yarvi under his breath.