Quotes About Ambition

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

Your dreams should never be better than your real life

Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.

If you're not satisfied with your life, it's time to invent a new one.

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.

When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

One day, she'd find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing.

I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.

I'm one of those people who just doesn't plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.

If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.