Quotes About Ambition

Do the best you can, but still feel that is not enough.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

I like the jellyfish because it has no brain or heart. It's just a thing that takes in the ocean through its mouth. I like that kind of ambition and simplicity.

Do I want children because I want to be admired as the admirable sort of woman who has children? Because I want to be seen as a normal sort of woman, or because I want to be the best kind of woman, a woman with not only work, but the desire and ability to nurture, a body that can make babies, and someone who another person wants to make babies with? Do I want a child to show myself to be the (normal) sort of woman who wants and ultimately has a child?

was thinking hard about something. He loved her intelligence. He told her that she was wasted in teaching, that she should be out there doing something for herself.

You think you can have everything. But you can't.

stepping on others' toes to get things done.

She became interested in performing when she was six and won a scholarship to the school. If she hadn't, she couldn't have gone.

She pushes you because she wants you to be the best." "The best at what? Matricide?

Okay then." She nodded. "Then let's do this." "Now before we start, there is one thing you always need to keep in mind during this process." "What?" "That everyone, at some point in their life, wants to fly. And soon you'll actually be doing it." "Which means . . . what? Exactly." "That you're better than everyone else.

All right. Talk to me darlin'. You're not insane. A little crazy, but not insane. And this...everything you've gotten...in the last few days...do you know how many people would kill for this?" "But...

You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done and inspiration is not going to help you.

I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history.

For me, there's still plenty of ground to be covered, as I get older. It's worked out great so far. I take it one job at a time. I'll just keep my eyes toward the next job and see where it takes me.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time. The second indication of the death of our dreams is certainty. The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.

I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

Every time you tell someone that you are going to fly and they talk about gravity, that is doubt.

Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

The key to success is to love what you do or to do what you love, no matter if you're doing it big time or in a small way.