Quotes About Ambition

I might go play the LPGA full-time and then, after I get better, go to the PGA full-time. Or just try to play both. It will be fun.

I didn't want to stop before my time was up.

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

I more remember the periods of time when I wasn't getting any auditions. That's more what I find painful in memory; that feeling of not even getting the chance to try and be rejected.

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

If you were starving and had all the time in the world, would you stop eating the greatest slice of cake on earth halfway through? Then why would you quit on your dreams?

I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

If I feel like I've reached this greatness in my career than there's no more room for growth. I don't think I'm ever going to get there. If I ever get complacent, it's time for me to bow out.

I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death

See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Always time to dream, so keep on dreaming!

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.