Quotes About Ambition

Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ...

He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.

All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.

I would be a billionaire if I was lookin' to be a selfish boss. That's not me...All I want is a good sandwich.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

DARE to Dream the Impossible Dream.....DARE to DREAM SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

At a time when I was trying to make something of myself, they were a destabilizing influence.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

you know, get going." "Sure.

The race is to the driven, not the swift.

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?

Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

Once you achieve a small dream and make a small success, it gives you confidence to go on the next step

The baseline level—that's where we stumble and fall, that's where we go through the motions. And that's where most of us live, most of the time. But the health of a society can be measured by how often and how meaningfully its people are able to reach that higher plane, to live lives bigger than they are.

En mi lápida quiero que diga: «Estaba loco, pero al menos lo intentó.» —¡Papá!

Tal vez el Empleador es uno de esos hombres que creen que un revés temprano, espectacular, los espolea a conseguir un triunfo mundial más adelante».

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.