Quotes About Ambition

I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years.

I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

I believe I'm just getting started. The TV show is just the foundation.... If you're open to the possibilities, your life gets grander, bigger, bolder!

To be mundane and poor is the curse of life!

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

I wanted to act, dance and perform more than anything, and I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).

In my personal life I've made a lot of compromises. I don't live comfortably. I've lived out of a suitcase for the last 15 years. I have lived without a dime to my name, for a very long time.

If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

Life helps those who help themselves.

I've spent my life following my passion.

We all want things in life. Donald Trump is to be known as a winner, because he does win. He wants to be known as a genuine - and he is a legitimate winner.

I want people to realize their life's dreams and passions.

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me.