1,853 Quotes About Ambition

On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet down the line.

Once you have some yes's in your life, the no's are not that bad.

Power is a beautiful thing.

What strange and thoughtless creatures we were, back in those days. We would go up to the rooftops to smoke, Wurth and I; and there in the company of other insomniac souls we would look out at the vast expanse of lights and glamour. We watched the towers as they climbed higher, and higher, as humanity reached for the skies.

We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the raw edges of the word; and in between puffs, we would smile, and dream of owning those streets, dreaming the same dreams that we scorned others for.

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

What I was sure of was that Tommy had something I'd never seen in anyone else: a blind and unhinged and totally unfounded ambition. He was so out of touch, so lacking in self-awareness, yet also wildly captivating. That night there was this aura around Tommy- an aura of the possible.

Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.