Quotes About Ambition

We always want more, more, more. You see good work; you want it better. We push, push, push.

I want to do good work and not take on any movie. I want to do a good movie where I have the most important or very good role.

I am ambitious to do good work and do it really well.

I always wanted to do good work and play strong parts.

I am waiting for some good work to come my way - whether it's TV or films... As long as it catches my interest, I will take it.

I'm ready to do good work in good films.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.

I felt like I was never going to be a great writer. I felt like I was going to be a good writer at best. I wanted to be great at something.

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

If a slave has a bad master, his ambition is to get a better; when he gets a better, he aspires to have the best; and when he gets the best, he aspires to be his own master.

It was the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties, and I look back to it now, after so many years, with some complacency and a little wonder that I could have been so earnest and persevering in any pursuit other than for my daily bread. I certainly saw nothing in the conduct of those around to inspire me with such interest: they were all devoted exclusively to what their hands found to do.

Feet, what do I need them for If I have wings to fly.

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.

I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles lived But there's no money, too much spent today / I had a guest over and we sat together.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können. (You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.)

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.