Ambition Quotes - Page 2

When it comes to fighting for your dreams, be a dragon. Breathe fire.

I know what other people think about me,” Rusty told her. “ ‘That Rusty,’ they say. ‘Charming and handsome,’ they say first, of course—they’re not blind. Then they add, ‘All the ambition and drive of a chocolate sundae.’

Quit beating yourself up, beat your goals up instead.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Whatever you set for yourself, you can achieve it.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

There is nothing in the world so enticing as that which you have been told you may not have.

Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate art.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.

Passion, patient, perseverance and persistent are four keys to great achievements.

Surely there must be in a world of manifold beautiful things something among them for me. And always, while I am still young, there is that dim light, the Future. But it is indeed a dim, dim light, and ofttimes there's a treachery in it.

When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep.

Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.

If you can't get everyone on your side, make sure they're right behind you.

If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.

What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living.

To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal of the survivor.

I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry

God holds the right key to every door.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

I am a book lover. I buy, collect and read books.

If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.

Put work into your dreams.

Ambition's ambition is immortality. To create an eternal legacy.

Life is a daring faith.

...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

In fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of contraction emotionally and physically. It seems to give us energy but doesn't really.  Like the white sugar of mental health, there's a short high followed by a crash.  The cultivation of mental rest or surrender is like eating healthy food.  It doesn’t give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy.

And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

Ambition is the intellectual equivalent of body odour.

Power hungry=life loving

To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death.

What strange and thoughtless creatures we were, back in those days. We would go up to the rooftops to smoke, Wurth and I; and there in the company of other insomniac souls we would look out at the vast expanse of lights and glamour. We watched the towers as they climbed higher, and higher, as humanity reached for the skies.

With a decision and a defined purpose, you can begin work.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

Nothing can replace confidence and single-minded pursuit of purpose.

Like overzealous religious converts, climbers originally from the lower rungs of society tend to go overboard when they ape the upper class.

If ever the adventure proves tiring, or you lose sight of your dream, look to the west at sunset. There, on days when the skies are clear, you might see upon the horizon a thin layer of amber mist. When it appears, you will know its purpose: it is the mist of believing.

At last a lifetime ambition of mine to become a pimp was satisfied.

Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court.""And why is that?""Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.

Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their own and usurped power from the rest of us. But they are usurpers; power belongs to every one of us. Seek it as much as possible. There is no shame in that. In fact it's a necessity. Either you have power or you are trampled to death in the stampede to get to the top

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, 'You will be famous.' "The seed was planted. Ambition fed on the compost of my vanity.

Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose.

Be bigger presence at work. Race up ladder (joyfully, w/smile on face), get raise. Get in best shape of life, start dressing nicer. Learn guitar? Make point of noticing beauty of world? Why not educate self re. birds, flowers, trees, constellations, become true citizen of natural world, walk around neighborhood w/kids, patiently teaching kids names of birds, flowers, etc. etc.? Why not take kids to Europe? Kids have never been. Have never, in Alps, had hot chocolate in mountain café, served by kindly white- haired innkeeper, who finds them so sophisticated/friendly relative to usual snotty/rich American kids (who always ignore his pretty but crippled daughter w/braids) that he shows them secret hiking path to incredible glade, kids frolic in glade, sit with crippled pretty girl on grass, later say it was most beautiful day of their lives, keep in touch with crippled girl via email, we arrange surgery here for her, surgeon so touched he agrees to do surgery for free, she is on front page of our paper, we are on front page of their paper in Alps? Ha ha.

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground

As regards the artists themselves, most of them gave up their freedom quite lightly, placing their art at the service of someone or something. As a rule, their concerns and their ambitions are those of any old careerist. I thus acquired a total distrust of art and artists, whether they were officially recognised or were endeavouring to become so, and I felt that I had nothing in common with this guild. I had a point of reference which held me elsewhere, namely that magic within art which I had encountered as a child.

If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

Talented people hit targets no one else can hit. Ambitious people aim to hit targets no one else can see.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

Cecil: “A cup of love is greater than a pitcher full of ambition.

Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.

Do not get lost in the flow of reality.

In every step you take, keep your feet firmly on the ground.

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.