Quotes About Ambition

For our part, we labor on in the blind hope that we will somehow be plucked from anonymity and elevated to full-time status, where you work about nine months out of the year. So

But you're out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.

With people who are young and aren't scared you can do lots.

How do I get to Broadway?...I want to get to the center of things.

And all to leave what with his toil he wonTo that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

Your Cleopatra; Dolabella's Cleopatra; every man's Cleopatra.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

In God 'tis glory: And when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

You can't just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud.

That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!

I never wanted this kind of life that Im still living.

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is

Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.

I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done.

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.