Quotes About Ambition

I've never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn't have a big ego. Ego's not a bad thing.

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.

I had friends who ran off to become ski instructors or worked in cool bars, and I often envied them, but I know I'd quickly become bored with that kind of life. I always need to push myself.

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

I'm going forward with my plans for life. I'm looking at things not only basketball-wise, but personal-wise.

Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

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.

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

For all of my life I have needed more.

When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.

You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.

Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

Will we ever understand the price of ambition, or ever apply our heart to life with submission?

Judge Samuel Alito's accomplishments in life are the embodiment of the American dream.