Quotes about Ambition

When power is scarce, a little of it is tempting.

Eating Fire Eating fire is your ambition: to swallow the flame down take it into your mouth and shoot it forth, a shout or an incandescent tongue, a word exploding from you in gold, crimson, unrolling in a brilliant scroll To be lit up from within vein by vein To be the sun

You take the first step, and to save yourself from the consequences, you take the next one. In times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

It is remarkable, I have since thought, how once a man has a few coins, no matter how he came by them, he thinks right away that he is entitled to them, and to whatever they can buy, and fancies himself cock of the walk.

No one ever told you greed and hunger are not the same.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.

You become what you think about most of the time.