Quotes About Ambition

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking...

Este esfuerzo por conseguir que cada cual apruebe aquello que uno ama u odia es, en realidad, ambición; y así vemos que cada cual apetece, por naturaleza, que los demás vivan según la índole propia de él. Pero como todos lo apetecen a la vez, a la vez se estorban unos a otros, y como todos quieren ser alabados y amados por todos, se tienen odio unos a otros.

Any exciting goal will arrange exciting ways to achieve it.

It would seem that Caesar's recurrent and deep-rooted fault was his concentration in pursuing the objective immediately in front of his eyes to the neglect of his wider object. Strategically he was an alternating Jekyll and Hyde.

If you're smart, then your dreams evolve, too.

Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.

Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.

All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look? It's based on a novel by a man named Lear And I need a job So I wanna be a paperback writer Paperback writer

I went to LaGuardia, so I'm very close to the reality that lot of actors work rarely.

I don't need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world.

When I got picked up by the Tapout crew and was featured on their reality show, that really jumpstarted my career.

I started pretty young: I did my first reality show when I was 17. Then came 'Roadies' in 2004, when I was 19.

I'd love to host a reality show now and not be a contestant in it. I want to take a show forward.

I want to do one reality show every year. It goes with my personality.

When I came to Mumbai to audition for a dance reality show, I was in top 100. I doubted myself and did not get through. It was a lesson for me... After that day, whenever I used to go for auditions, I never doubted myself.

I would always tell people I'm going to have a reality show, I'm a star, or I'm rich.

I did a reality show. There's nothing scandalous about that. I did it to further my business and career. I make my own money.

People always assume that once you are in a reality show, you will become an actor for fame and money.

I would love to do more reality shows.

I just really wanted to be taken seriously in my music and I feel like I've done the reality shows and I've loved it, but sometimes you just need to pull away and take time for yourself.