Quotes About Ambition

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

Will something else. Have dreams and believe in them. They don't have to come true. They are just as true as a dream is. Life itself is a dream.

The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole life and it's all you can think about. That doesn't have to happen.

I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

Twenty years from now, I hope I'm consistently in my life, in the zone. I have seen the next year before.

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

If you're the kind of kid who thinks that all that's important in life is making money, Wall Street is probably still the place to go, especially now that Trump's elected.

In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there.

I hate this phrase, but it's a "can do" attitude [that's important] that, whatever you do in life, you should have.

If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.

My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.

I feel like personally I have more drive now than I did then probably because I care more and also because I've reached the mid-life point.

Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead.

It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity.

In my life mission is everything.. Even if i was a municipal chairman, I would have worked as hard as a CM

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.