Quotes About Ambition

Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

Plant the seed, set the target, live your life.

I used to believe that if my career was going great, then I was not entitled to a great personal life. Well, I've stopped thinking that way. I believe I can have it all.

At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.

I don't want a simple life. I want an extraordinary continuous adventure. That's the problem. I just want more. I want it all & everything in-between.

I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!

I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

Challenges are the key in life. You always have to challenge yourself and try to get to different states.

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

In all honesty, I have a few irons in the fire in the TV world, but mostly, I'm working on having the most amazing life I can possibly have, and hopefully my career will come along for the ride.

I knew early in life that I wanted a show business career.

To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.

Life always take on the character of its motive.

He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered.

"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.

What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one's life.

Good is the enemy of great.