Quotes About Ambition

In November 2004, the last person on the planet who expected Barack Obama to run for president in 2008 was Barack Obama.

Life is a competition... Not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives. Each to master some weakness of yesterday. Each day to repair a mistake; Each day to surpass ourselves.

What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?

Specificity transforms a vague dream into a concrete, achievable goals. If you can practically see, hear, feel, and smell a goal, the chances are excellent that you'll not only know what's required to make t real, you'll actually do what's required to make it real.

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

But if you don't know where you want to go, I suppose any path will get you there.

There's always more to life than money, Will. Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal. Annnie Lambert

THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE ART might well begin by reflecting on the fate of those who preceded them: most who began, quit.

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fames proud temple shines afar?

I still hankered to be back on the racecourse, but getting the funds for yet another assault on the ring was proving difficult. Could I track Sting down?

You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams.

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

if you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone elses success

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

You cannot fulfill a purpose; it is like a guiding star on the horizon- forever pursued but never reached.

You have all the ingredients for you to bake the cake you want in life, Start mixing!

You have the ingredients inside you to bake the cake you desire, Start Mixing!