Quotes About Ambition

Dreams and goals keep us young and interested in life.

I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.

Working is a big part of me and my life and I wasn't happy to stay at home - I'm a workaholic.

Life is greater when I'm dealing with something than when I'm just dreaming away.

Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.

Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

Life is all business.

The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.

As you advance in life, different passions can take the front seat, so for me, business is where my primary focus is right now.

Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

My goal was just to live a good life that I was happy with. And I wasn't exactly sure that that meant being the star of a movie.

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be 'realistic.' Realistic people do not accomplish extraordinary things...

you can be what you want to be

If there is something that you believe you would love to have in your life—such as a more fulfilling career, a life partner, or greater financial freedom—I can tell you that the reason you don't yet have it in that particular form is almost certainly that you don't truly value it enough. There

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.