Quotes About Ambition

If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.

Playing Xbox for 23 hours straight is cool and all, but I'm going to teach you how to spend time on things in your life that will get you the following two things: paid and laid.

Every kid wants to reach their goals in life and be the best. During my Bruce Lee phase, I wanted to be the best martial artist in the world.

If life was a piece of cake, it wouldn't be worth eating!

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.

When Star Trek is hitting its stride and doing what it's supposed to do, it can be very provocative, but because it's reaching so high and trying to live up to its own expectations, it fails more than most shows.

The poet of Whit-manesque ambitions must find a way to present something that has as its sole purpose taking things away.

Maybe I am not very human - all I ever wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

BY ALL ACCOUNTS, HOWEVER, Washington did not want the presidency.

He described the statesman—a role he boasted of avoiding—as someone "whose watchful days & sleepless Nights are spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own—perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if the Globe was insufficient for us all.

I'm not old enough to play baseball or football. I'm not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn't need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I'll just hit them out of the park. Then I'll be able to walk.

Edward Jones

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

The dream shall never die.

In politics, you either eat the baby or you are the baby.