“You have ambition, Tané. Never apologise for that.”
“When people throw stones at you, don t throw them back. Collect them all and build an empire.”
“لا أدري لماذا حياتي صعبة هكذا. هل يحصل هذا معي لأن لدي حلمًا؟”
“Self-reliance and self-learning are your greatest assets.”
“Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.”
“Ambition is not everything. No. Not everything, but it s something. Something important, if you ask me.”
“It doesn t matter how great your shoes are if you don t accomplish anything in them.”
“This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.”
“Politeness. Now there s a poor man s virtue if ever there was one. What s so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it s easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what s left when you ve failed at everything else. People with ambition don t give a damn what other people think about them.”
“Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.”
“The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.”
“Oh, it s delightful to have ambitions. I m so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that s the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
“A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.”
“Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.”
“We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It s almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”
“I know what I want. I will pursue it with all heart.”
“His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.”