Quotes About Ambition

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

I was really poor for most of my adult life.

I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music.

This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

There's no point in spending your life in the pursuit of something that's easy.

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.

I don't think I was really going anywhere in life. I don't think, I was achieving too much, even though I had a stable job and all.

I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.

My mantra has always been to have zero regrets in life. Everything I do at one speed, I go all-out.

I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

At some point in my life I thought it was good to specialize, but now I think it's good to build a bigger product than just music.

Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too."

I don't want to think my life as a career.

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.