Quotes About Ambition

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.

Every individual believes deep down that he or she has a greater capacity for success than they are currently experiencing.

Richard, might I ask you something? We've talked tonight of what you must do, of what you can do, of what you ought to do.But we've said nothing of what you want to do.Richard, do you want to be King?" At first, she thought he wasn't going to answer her. But as she studied his face, she saw he was turning her question over in his mind, seeking to answer it as honestly as he could. "Yes," he said at last. "Yes...I do.

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Never quit, we are always 3 feet from Gold.

Most of the time, their balloon zipped across that grass lik eit

The other dreams inside a constellation

O say can you see him as I see him now, as if he had no one to answer to, he so prepared to devour and excrete the hopes he'd been handed on a platter, the spoon in his mouth, he could eat what he had not earned, he could do it in his sleep.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

We're capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.

Not a realistic wish, as anyone could have told him — but I would not be the one to say so. Why limit your dreams, after all? Why not hope for the grandest and the best?

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.

No one can ever make your dream perfect but you.

Only by underrating yourself can you keep on improve

Only by underrating yourself will you find the will to improve

She'd only become a monster to take care of herself in a monstrous business. Underneath she was a neurotic woman, deeply afraid and uncertain of everything except her own genius. - Frank Capra on Bette Davis

You're right, dear," said Joan, "I do want you to suffer. I want you to struggle and fear and worry the way I did. I want you to fight every step of the way, because when you suffer you don't forget. That's what it takes to become an actress, a star, something great; and not just a personality." Crawford's

All things foamed and fogged and our minds slept where they stood. There was always more shovelling to do.

So don't worry if someone doesn't have your dream listed in their little book. Go out there and write your own.

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man.

Ridiculous! People come here to write bombs, or direct them, or act in them, not plant them!

wanted that kind of life even though I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.