Quotes About Ambition

Fox wants too much. Sometimes in the rush of hyper-speed he dreams impossible dreams, dreams that cannot be. The difficult thing, he has discovered, is not just knowing how to dream but knowing what to dream. And the most difficult thing of all is when you find the answer to both. Then you start to believe in your dreams--the impossible dreams that can't come true.

But it's her life and to Mara it doesn't feel small. It feels like everything. Yet she will try, even if it means losing her life - because she won't be able to live with herself is she doesn't. And nothing is impossible - she should know that by now.

Trying to cling to what you had when you were young would be so tragic, horrible, and after a certain age ambition is horribly disfiguring to the character.

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

Without the Project I was nothing but a secretary on a road to nowhere, drifting toward frosted hair and menthol addiction.

You and I are both in the business of believing in, and promoting, things that don't yet exist. The leap of faith: it's equal parts wishful thinking, vicarious ambition, and bullshit, and yet... I can already envision the moment when I open Troy's new book and find within it, among the acknowledgments, your name and mine...

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

Sean realistas pidan lo imposible

En la vida, además de talento, hay que tener fortuna. Y la fortuna hay que perseguirla, no cae del cielo... Tú mismo me lo has dicho muchas veces.

Aunque tal vez tuera yo el que la veía así, añorante de aquella estación de ciudad provinciana y tranquila a la que llegué un buen día decidido a iniciar mi carrera como periodista.

I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.

He bestows the world like a colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs, to peep about, and find ourselves dishonorable graves. The fault dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Let me have men about me that are fat.... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous

Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o'nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in Our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

I demand more from myself than anybody else could possibly expect of me.

Hay quienes quieren llegar a la luna, mientras nosotros aún estamos tratando de llegar a la aldea

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins!

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.