Quotes About Ambition

It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

Success will ruin your life.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

I was raised in farm and ranch communities, and my dad wanted me to be a cowboy like him, but I saw how he struggled in life and wanted more than that.

I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my life.

Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life.

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.

It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.

We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and if we screw up we can get in a world of trouble - we're very intense dreamers.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.

I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.

It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.