Quotes About Ambition

I will begin with this: Do not roam among the haggard and the meek. Do not fight for scraps of food that are moist with stagnant rains. Do not enter the crucible of egoistic men who compete over dime and dollar. Rise, my student. And insist First upon the glory of Freedom. So that no arena can contain you. And no man can equal you. For your journey is unlike any other man in the field.

you are essentially saying is that success is for the mediocre.

Not all dreams get broken. We all need dreams.'...

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

My opponent now is myself, my inclination toward laziness.

Start thinkin' about what you're goin' to be tomorrow—not what you were yesterday." For

he insisted, since he'd earned something more useful than a GED—a GE, his "gutter education." He

I used to be asked in interviews what I see for myself 10 or 15 years down the line, and I would say that I see wonderful and interesting things to do.

I'm essentially starting at the bottom of the food chain and playing the small clubs and intimate shows.

Anybody that's intimidated by my success probably isn't the right person for me.

I always wanted to direct and write a movie, but I thought that I didn't really have it in me. I tried to write fiction and humorous short stories, and some were considered successful, but it was always a huge effort for a small reward. I was always intimidated by the process.

I felt intimidated the entire time I was in school by my teachers and classmates. But I just knew acting was something I wanted to do.

Rather than enjoying my success I was stressing about it. Wanting it, but at the same time I couldn't handle the consequences. I was intimidated by people.

I went out of Brazil very early, so the people in Brazil didn't know me well. So they didn't support me so much. I was never intimidated by this because I always knew that I had to go to the field and do my job.

When I was aspiring to play for India, I'd look at the Ricky Pontings and the Matthew Haydens and think they were very intimidating.

Directing was liberating and intimidating. It's something I've always wanted to do.

Here's the thing: If you're taking roles that aren't intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of actors say, but if it's not intimidating you, then why are you doing it?

Broadway is intimidating. Don't think it's not.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

There's nothing more intoxicating than doing big, bold things.

Money, celebrity and power can be very intoxicating.

'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.

At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.