Quotes About Ambition

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

Ambition beats genius 99% of the time

If Jay spent as much time studying as he does trying to be a comedian, he'd be a big star.

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

Just keep trying, and your dreams will come true. But you have to give it all your time, effort, and soul.

Obviously I wanted to be a bus driver - and I still do. If only I could get a part time job.

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

I spent most of my time wrestling looking up at the lights.

I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world.

Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.

People strive to be ahead of time just to get a chance to trip it.

Your goals and dreams will never happen if you don't Sow Labor Into Time