Quotes About Ambition

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

I'm one of those people who really wants to do everything. And if I had enough time, I really would.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be kicked out on the streets if I didn't sell enough paintings.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.

I'm still an actor who wants to work all the time.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time.

What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.

It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

It sounded so promising. As if this would be the day. The day to ride a bike without training wheels. To make it through the afternoon without a stained blouse and a scolding. To persuade the girl next door to like me. To meet a man. To make a mint. To prosper. To love. To live fearlessly.

If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

Our ability to understand, to embrace, to help, to know, to feel and to love is bounded only by our own emotional ambitions. The capacity to open ourselves up to one another is as huge as we dare to make it.

She had, or might have had, many suitors in her own rank of life, but scornfully repulsed or rejected them all; for none but a gentleman could please her refined taste, and none but a rich one could satisfy her soaring ambition.

I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

he never had fewer than seven jobs and at one point had thirteen.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

I want be a writer

Unless you write yourself, you can't know how wonderful it is; I always used to bemoan the fact that I couldn't draw, but now I'm overjoyed that at least I can write. And if I don't have the talent to write books or newspaper articles, I can always write for myself. But I want to achieve more than that.

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.