His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
AeschylusTags: ambition resolutions
You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.
Ayn RandTags: love ambition dagny-taggart
Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
Steven EriksonTags: ambition compromise
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
Orson Scott CardTags: life learning ambition winning survival
The piercing fanfare of the brass against the brutal boom and rattle of the drums surged through the air. At the head of the Ferris band marched the drum majorette. A crimson and white shako crowned her long dark hair which flew out behind her and across her radiant face flushed with excitement. Her blue eyes flashed and her smile registered triumph at having been chosen.
Clark ZlotchewTags: disillusionment ambition sex hollywood high-school
Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.
Alex RogersTags: life truth inspiration ambition dreams courage
It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.
Christopher HitchensTags: ambition personality biography winston-churchill larger-than-life
You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.
Margaret AtwoodTags: life inspirational ambition life-lessons
The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore RooseveltTags: ambition victory brave devotion achievement caring
There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.
Michael MoorcockTags: ambition madman eternal-champion
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