Quotes About Ambition

be careful what you wish for. Because you might get exactly what you want.

I hope that one day, my life will be different and richer, too, but from this vantage point, sitting here in this little room, it's so hard to know

Somos lo que pretendemos ser así que debemos tener cuidado con lo que pretendemos ser (Kurt Vonnegut)

Great things were coming, and her life was going to be anything she wanted it to be, because now it was really and truly up to her.

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn't sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted.

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.

I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank.

You were born to this, weren't you?' 'Well, you know what they say – it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

Ambition is your special ware And you have dared to call it passion.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

Now is my time. Everything I've done up to this point is just a warm up. This is where it all begins.

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.

There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.

I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25

There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."