Quotes About Ambition

I've read a dozen different versions of Stanislavski's famous Three Questions, i.e. the queries an actor must ask him- or herself before playing any scene. Here's my version: Who am I? Why am I here? What do I want? The second two are pretty easy. It's the first that's the killer.

I sometimes thought to myself, Steve, you've got it lucky now, no distractions, you can focus full-time. What are you gonna do when life gets complicated again?

Steven Pressfield

We don't tell ourselves, I'm never going to write my symphony. Instead we say, I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.

Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it. Begin it now.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live , and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance

It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Those with the lowest standards willing to grovel and beg are often the recipients of the greatest rewards.

Stuart Woods

Stuart Woods

and worked her way up to major and

just for you.

Idly, I wondered what it'd be like to have a city street named after me. Kinsey Avenue. Kinsey Road. Not bad. I figured I could learn to live with the tribute if it came my way.

There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt.

Your moment will come because you'll make it come.

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

You said you're not like other men. Well, I'm not like other women-you've said so yourself. I have ambitions as men do. I'm racked with longings. I'm selfish and willful and sometimes deceitful. I rebel. I'm easy to anger. I doubt the ways of God. I'm an outsider everywhere I go. People look on me with derision. And you would still have me?

My aspiration to become a jurist had been laid to rest in the Graveyard of Failed Hopes, an all-female establishment. The sorrow of it had faded, but regret remained, and I'd taken to wondering if the Fates might be kinder to a different girl.

Every girl comes into the world with varying degrees of ambition," she said, "even if it's only the hope of not belonging body and soul to her husband.

I hope for everything.

Ah, but never underestimate the power of a dismissed dream. I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

If you must err, do so on the side of audacity. That was the little slogan I'd devised for myself.