Quotes About Ambition

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

It's a dog eat dog world. But only if the second dog is more stupid than the first.

He could not help, too, rolling his large eyes round him as he ate, and chuckling with the possibility that he might one day be lord of all this scene of almost unimaginable luxury and splendor. Then, he thought, how soon he'd turn his back upon the old school-house; snap his fingers in the face of Hans Van Ripper, and every other niggardly patron, and kick any itinerant pedagogue out of doors that should dare to call him comrade!

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

I need his dreams. Life isn't life without them. And if he can give me the dreams, I think I can hold the rest together.

Challenges in life always seek leaders and leaders seek challenges.

If you don't control your time- someone else will. If you don't protect your dream- you will fulfill someone else 's dream.

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger . . . they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor. . . . They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace. —Tacitus, Roman senator and historian1

You push on, do your best, and if you are really brave, you dream big, doubts and fears be damned. This is the stuff that miracles are made of, and the proof was there to see, on February 22, 1980.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." HELEN KELLER

You will never get what you don't ask for. You can't find what you aren't looking for. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

I would set my course that instant not for the nearest but the farthest star.

We can't change the past but we can make any future that we want.

I believe in America because we have great dreams - and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

I supposed I've always thought if you really wanted something you shouldn't ask for it.

Along with every other male of his acquaintance he loathed the Naked Chef with messianic passion and prayed for the day he suffered a fatal accident on his scooter or burst into flames with the friction of sliding down that nauseating banister. Mark hated to think how rich he must be. And the fact that a mere bloody cook was taking up space in The Times that could be filled by a train journalist. Like himself, for example. Bastard.

empowerment can come by looking for opportunities and taking them when we can.

He saw Hercules in the movie theater time after time, hour after hour, examining Park, judging him, admiring him, and, ultimately, promising himself that one day he, Arnold Schwarzenegger, then thirteen years old and poor as he was, would be like him, would even surpass Reg Park.