My Ambition Quotes
Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.
For he, who has never sailed through storms, can never trust sailors of such ships.
The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.
At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.
The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.
At the end of the day let there be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.
Somewhere between what is...and what can be...begs the question...what are you meant to be?
Always stay one step a head, unless you’re already there
What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.
You want to know the great thing about today, it doesn't care about what you did or didn't do yesterday or what you're going to do tomorrow, it only cares about what you do right now.
Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.
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.
True ambition is trying to paint yourself out of a corner
I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.
He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne.
It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with.
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 believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.
Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.
That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.
Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.
We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.
Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.
In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition.
Talented people hit targets no one else can hit. Ambitious people aim to hit targets no one else can see.
It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.
Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.
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.
...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.
The only way the weight of the world can break you down, is if you carry it the wrong way.
Most of our problems today are not that we don’t know, but that we don’t know how to put things together with the right zeal and grit to get something noble and leave noble footprints!
When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power a little transient fame A grave to rest in and a fading name!