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Quotes About Ambition

I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.
~ Chris Martin
Make the big time where you are!
~ Frosty Westering
The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.
~ Hilary of Poitiers
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
~ Jean Genet
I may not be the lithest, the most talented, or have the fastest time in the field, but I have passion and courage, and sometimes that is enough to do something extraordinary.
~ Lauren Fleshman
Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.
~ Donna Summer
With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.
~ Napoleon Hill
Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.
~ Hillary Clinton
I never wanna have a time where I'm on the big lawn just sitting back smoking cigars and drinking lemonade. I wanna work forever. Until I die. I wanna die on the way to a show.
~ Schoolboy Q
I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
~ Jack Nicholson
When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.
~ Jacqueline Susann
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
~ Alexander Woollcott
From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.
~ Isabella Rossellini
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
~ V. S. Naipaul
The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
~ Will Durant
Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.
~ Mike Piazza
a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.
~ Gloria Naylor
Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Oh every time I close my eyes I see my name in shining lights
~ Bruno Mars
I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
~ George Michael
By the time I was five, I was a little diva.
~ Stevie Nicks
I teach kids how to be rich by the time they are age 40, 35 if they are extra bright. Most kids think they are extra bright, so they go for 35.
~ Jim Rohn