Quotes About Ambition

Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.

But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.

The truth is, I'd give it all up to be a rock star.

If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one — the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Stop thinking you have to go to big industry to have a big life, because it's not the truth.

I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.

I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well.

And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.

If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.

Ambition soars and also slithers

Don't wait for the opportunity, create it.

Sarcasm is the new staircase to stardom.