Quotes About Ambition

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

I decided to "find myself" in monumental sculpture. Alas, monumental sculpture is a very conservative genre. The cause is the monumentality itself. You can secretly write novels and symphonies. You can secretly experiment on canvas. But just try to hide a twelve-foot-high sculpture!

What can I do? I have no talents. I refuse to cripple myself for ninety roubles... Well, all right, so I'll eat two thousand hamburgers in my lifetime. Wear out twenty-five dark-grey suits. Leaf through seven hundred issues of the local newspaper. And die without scratching the earth's surface. Is that it? ... I'd rather live only a minute, but live it right! (Fred Kolesnikov)

The sky's not for us. We weren't meant to fly. All we can do is try not to fall.

I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.

pero además había algo en Vera que lo volvía indignante: el tam tam del éxito, la idea del reconocimiento, esos espejismos de clase media por los que era capaz de dejarme sin dudar, e incluso con alegría.

Je ne me vois pas en train de travailler quelque part, rien que pour travailler. Pour quoi faire ? Si c'est pour gagner de l'argent, n'importe quel travail est bon.

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots.

I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

You've got it made. How the words sing a swift jazz poem of success, hi-fi, the best chicks (or guys), your name in lights, pot to burn, jets to L.A. and London, bread in the bank, baby, a fortress built around your ego like a magic suit of armor!

The greatest stories about people, and what they achieved in their lives, are the stories of those people who chose to dream, and then went on to make their dreams come to life.  (Not surprisingly, there are no success stories written about people who have no dreams.)

it makes no difference where you came from, if you know where you want to go.

Give life to your dreams, give strength to your visions, and give light to your path.

Soar like an eagle beyond the skies of heaven's reach; as the wings of dreams dance with the winds of reality