Quotes About Ambition

Life gets in the way of dreams. Dreams get in the way of life. That's the way it's always been.

But at the same time, my resolve is hardening like lacquer. I'm taking time out, but I'm not giving up. I mean, I'm only in my twenties; am I going to let one setback crush my ambition? No.

The possibilities in my head are getting more and more far-fetched, but I can't give up on them.

That dream's over," I say shortly. "Partners don't make fifty-million-quid mistakes.

It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood.

Full equity partnership is the highest pinnacle, way above the first rung of partnership. It's the most prestigious job in law. I never, ever, ever expected that.

Il lavoro è sicuramente una delle cose più importanti della vita, e dovrebbe essere adatto a te. Lo stipendio non è tutto.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

By God, I'll have more booty in a moment.

Who would choose uneasy dreams to don a crown when all the kingly sway can be enjoyed without?

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?

I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.

Take full responsibility for your life, move forward in the direction of your dreams

I don't discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can't be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

Whatever inspires you fires you.

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to keep myself from slipping.

I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don't know where I'm going to take my career.

If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you'll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.