Quotes About Ambition

Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.

I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

I never got along in school really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube.

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

Life is a choice... it's a choice to be successful.

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.

I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life. So you develop the sports-mouth with all of your friends.

I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.

There's no time for boys in my life right now.

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood

My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.

Baz Luhrrman's movie Romeo and Juliet is what made me decide that I wanted to dedicate my life to making films one way or another.

The worst curse in life is unlimited potential.

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

I've been second my whole life.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.

I've put out kind of a lot of albums and people seem to like it and the crowds keep getting bigger and bigger, so I think maybe I could make a life out of it.