Quotes about Ambition

Some people hold on to a position or title for dear life; they hold on so tight, in fact, that they sabotage their own lives in the process.

If you stop dreaming, you get complacent, and complacency never changes the world.

We need to stop shuffling service parts randomly and set our sights on a goal, something we are moving toward in every service element.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government.

To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.

So she will, said the Dowager. You'll see that young man in the Cabinet before very long. Such a handsome couple on a public platform, and very sound, I'm told, about pigs, and that's so important, the British breakfast-table being what it is.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

You have to know your identity. It's the biggest thing in wanting to pursue creative dreams.

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.