Quotes about Ambition

Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off. Anyway, they're the congressmen you can't bribe, the Presidents who aren't politicians, the writers, speakers, scientists, statesmen who aren't just populate grab-bags for a half-dozen women and children.

I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

He used to think that he wanted to be goos, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

My life... my life has got to be like this. It's got to keep going up.

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair.

If you want to be prominent, get out and try for something.

If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!" —Thomas Parke D'invilliers

He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart.

He was born sleepless without a talent for rest or the desire for it. --Cecelia Brady about Stahr

Well, there I was, 'way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.

My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.