Ambition Quote by Theodore Dreiser Download Open image ““Strange ambition. Strange perversion, one might almost say. In”” — Theodore Dreiser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Motivation
“The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“I rarely admit this ambition anymore because it seems to always garner this exact reaction: an odd combination of surprised and impressed. And I… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.” — Alan Watt Copy Share Image
“I say that ambition is absurd, and yet I remain in its thrall. It’s like being a slave all your life, then learning one… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.” — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“Which dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Ambition is a funny thing. It’s like being a Trekkie in that if you admit to it, those around you are mock supportive of… — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
“Ambition is the undoing of men. They always want what they know to be impossible and unattainable. And they are unaware of the attainable.” — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“Cowperwood was shocked by the nudity of the Venus which conveyed an atmosphere of European freedom not common to America;” — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“now. If any habits ever had time to fix upon her, they would have operated here. Habits are peculiar things. They will drive the… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“Here were these two, bandying little phrases, drawing purses, looking at cards, and both unconscious of how inarticulate all their real feelings were. Neither… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
If we are to extract any joy out of our span, we must think and plan and make things better not only for ourselves… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking- chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
