Quotes About Ambition

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Success is difficult to define.

This is America. Success is not guaranteed.

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

Success is something good, and something bad. I don't know if it's good to always go after success.

I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

It really helps to know what success is before you get there, and if you know, then you can head right for it. For some people, it's the most money. For some, it's the most power. For some, it's the most girlfriends. Everybody's got a measure. For me, I guess it's having the respect and admiration of your peers.

In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.

My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!

Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness - of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.

I get to define for myself what being a success is.

Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.

Success is for creeps.

In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.

Our ambitions are not limited to quarterly results. Our ambitions are linked to a belief in what we do. And one of the definite privileges of success is being able to see beyond yourself.

Early success is really scary. Especially in acting.

You know, I sure hope this alt-left movement doesn't succeed because, I sure don't want to live in a world where success is punished - and ambitions are thwarted by big government. That is not the American way - and, it's certainly not a path for success.

Success is like a drug.