Quotes About Ambition

I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear, how it was?

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

The comic book world is a tough business.

If you have more dreams than achievements-you're young.

the decision to move forward—despite the sheer improbability of success—was not an elective one; it was a matter of necessity.

The bigger the dreams and aspirations a person has, the younger he is!

I would be bored to death if I didn't control a country--Gin

I want there to be great expectations for Japan.

I think what is meant by animal spirits is to be pro-active on all things that you do. For example, in the mind of management they will try to increase their revenue from sales, and they will try to increase their profits, and they will be positively investing in human resources which will be necessary in growing the company. That would be the animal spirits. I think, exactly, Japan is in the process of regaining this animal spirit.

The difference between a career and a job," Judy had once told her, "is that a job gets you nowhere. If you plan a career, then a job should be a step toward a definite goal—when you accept a job you should know exactly when you intend to leave it.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.

He found himself waking, despite the alarm clock's shrill ring, ten minutes earlier each day, and as he placed his head on the pillow each evening, numbers and names and new ventures would float through his mind, directionless, like blackbirds.

Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

Purpose: A lifetime goal is called a purpose. To identify your purpose, ask yourself "If my age was a hundred today and I looked back at my life, what is it that I want to say is my accomplishment?" The answer is your purpose.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don't try. – Beverley Sills

Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy goal. – Earl Nightingale

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

If your aims are lofty, your achievements are bound to be great.

To live without an aim is to wander in a wilderness