Quotes About Ambition

Elle vivait seule et travaillait plus dur que quiconque, évitait les contagions petites-bourgeoises: le doute de soi, le mépris des études, l'ennui.

And you'd get point A followed by points B and C, and on the one hand F, and on the other foot G, until you could see the whole alphabet stretching ahead, each letter a Sahara in itself to be crawled across

Know what you need, and if it crosses your path, take it.

Having a talent isn't worth much unless you know what to do with it.

I will fly to those royal birds

But if the star should set, even while I am penning these lines, be it so; still I can say it has shone, and I have received a rich portion.

Ambition is natural when you don't have anything. You know what you're driving for.

Don't Tell Me the Sky's the Limit When There Are Footprints on the Moon

You're not a hypocrite. You aim toward lofty heights. The fact that your arrow cannot always reach them does not make you a hypocrite.

Do all these things so you can matriculate at the most prestigious school possible. It's like the first seventeen years of your life are just an audition for the Ivy Leagues." It

Do you need anything, Mr. Pierce?" the young associate asked him. She was a recent Stanford Law grad and gorgeous and chipper and full of life, and you wondered when life would beat it out of her. It always did in the end. That kind of enthusiasm wouldn't last.

When I was about 9 years old, man, I realized that the real thing was not only to do what you were doing totally great, but to look totally great while you were doing it.

The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.

I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.

Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning.

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

I was a sharecropper's son. That's as low as you can get on the totem pole.

When you get started in comedy, you're at the bottom of the totem pole. Not only are you not getting paid at these open mics. You're actually paying to do them.

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

I'm dying to experiment with roles and touch new realms of cinema.

I have a goal to be the best player every time I touch that floor. Just be the best me.

I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again.