Quotes About Ambition

Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'

I always told my people that, at some point, I want to play a superhero in the MCU.

My dream role would be to play a Korean hero in a Hollywood superhero movie.

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

But to be what I am, to live what I was meant to live, to want to sound like no one else, to yield the blossoms dictated to my heart: this is what I want - and this surely cannot be arrogance. (Letters on Life)

In writing poetry, one is always aided and even carried away by the rhythm of exterior things: for the lyric cadence is that of nature: of the waters, the wind, the night. But to write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built like a cathedral: there one is truly without a name, without ambition, without help: on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness.

You see, I want a lot. Maybe I want it all: the darkness of each endless fall, the shimmering light of each ascent. — Rainer Maria Rilke, from "Du Siehst, ich will viel," Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God , trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)

One ought to turn the most extreme possibility inside oneself into the measure for one's life, for our life is vast and can accommodate as much future as we are able to carry.

But difficult things are what we were set to do, almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.

the Raj could also dangle jobs before the educated unemployed, councils before the ambitious, and titles before the rich and the vain.

New York! he said. That's not a place, it's a dream.

Gin, jazz and dreams were not enough.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

Hitch your wagon to a star.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

The World exists for you ; Build therefore your own world

New York is a sucked orange.

His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors; Our valors are our best gods.