Quotes About Ambition

She sat in silence as he limped out, teeth gritted. Click, tap, grunt. Click, tap, grunt. That mixture of cunning, ruthlessness, burning ambition and constant pain was far from unfamiliar. She had heard it said that every woman ends up marrying her father. Until that moment, she had always imagined herself the exception.

There's no curse like getting what you want.

Rising early. Of course. The second greatest virtue. It comes just behind ruthlessness.

His recklessness or her ambition alone could not have done it. But like two chemicals which, apart, are merely mildly poisonous, combined they had produced an unstable explosive which had blown both their lives and thousands of others to hell.

Men don't fence for their King, or for their families, or for the exercise either, before you try that one on me. They fence for the recognition, for the glory. They fence for their own advancement. They fence for themselves. I should know.

Seems giving little men big men's shoes doesn't make 'em big. Just makes 'em trip over.

Give Bethod a kick from me, once you have him under your boot." "That I will, unless he gets me under his." "Never easy, kicking upwards.

Perhaps this would be a great day, the first of a great era, and he would be proud in after years to have had his part in it. Even if his part had been a dark one. Some men, after all, can only play dark parts. - Shenkt

A man's worst enemies are his own ambitions.

Forma parte de la naturaleza de los hombres, y sobre todo de los ambiciosos, ser infelices.

And then he realised then that he had not lost all those times in the training square because he had lacked the skill, or the strength, or even a hand. He had lacked the will.

Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

it was strange how circumstances would rarely let one be the hero, however much one might want to be. However much one might deserve to be.

It's always the poor who are crushed under rich men's ambitions. And yet they rarely complain, because ... well ..." "They dream of having towers o' their own?" Cosca chuckled. " Why, yes, I suppose they do. They don't see that the higher you climb, the further you have to fall." "Men rarely see that 'til the ground's rushing at 'em.

It wasn't easy. But if changing the world was easy, everyone would be at it.

El oro y la plata lo son todo para todos. Algunos tenemos suficiente para poder fingir que no.

A legszörny?bb átok, ha az ember megkapja, amit akar.

If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid." "The

But there comes a time you have to say no to what you're given and reach for what you want.

It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort. All

That's the trouble with ambition. It's easy to forget, when you're always looking upwards, that the only way down from the dizzy heights is a long drop.

To fight my enemies I need friends behind me, and I'm clean out of friends. You have to be realistic. It's been a while since my ambitions went beyond getting through each day alive.

There's always something dark about a man with money

It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort. All the things that Jezal had thought he wanted—power, fame, the beautiful trappings of greatness—they were nothing but dust. All he wanted now was for things to be as they had been, before he got them. But there was no way back. Not ever.