ambition

The last goose in the column is flying just as high.

This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money.

The world__ deadliest mercenaries choose to serve you, the whispers say, because they have yet to meet me.

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try.

The ambition of men compels them to break even the most heartfelt vows.

Success comes only through strong will, determination and effort.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.

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.

Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.

Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.

Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

Somewhere between what is...and what can be...begs the question...what are you meant to be?

At the end of the day let there be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

You know, you the worst kind, you want to marry the artist and live like squalor, but you wait, in five years you be like, Baby Jake why we eat ramen noodles every night? You a hustler, don't blind me, I see.

You don__ come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn__ a strong aspect of your personality. 'A reality shaped around your own desires' _ there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

Ambition is not everything.""No. Not everything, but it's something. Something important, if you ask me.