Quotes About Ambition

You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Set Your Goal Decide on something you would like to have, work toward, realize, or create. It can be on any level — a job, a house, a relationship, a change in yourself, increased prosperity, a happier state of mind, improved health, beauty, a better physical condition, solving a problem in your family or community, or whatever.

Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.

But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.

Try. The tiniest dream that you try to make happen, is worth more than the biggest dream you never attempt.

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

Ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis: where you are worth nothing, there you should want nothing

She could possibly hit the best-seller list if she sold it as a novel, though.

Romantic comedy heroines were seldom on top of the world, doing exactly what they'd always wanted to do.

People with low self-esteem seldom try to take over the world." Suddenly,

A need, a need, a need have I A wish, a wish, a wish, I sigh

Then let me have my destiny, whatever it is. Don't break the world before I can find my own path!

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me...but I had high expectations for myself

But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.

don't tell me what I cant do.

I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, "Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie." What am I going to say, no? So I did it.

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

Don't give up your dreams.

She's trollin' for a breadwinner and uses a short skirt for bait.