Quotes About Ambition

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

You probably choose x-country because you were too small to play football.

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

You can be a big fish in a small pond, but you're only going to be competing against people at that level.

Small aim is a crime.

The list of what I want to do is so long, I would need a few lifetimes to achieve them. For instance, I would like to fly small planes, maybe over the Ganges one day.

It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small business.

As a small business owner myself, I understand what it is like to scale up a business in the early years.

Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I was born.

The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.

My father has been serious with me because he wanted me to have the best opportunities to do well. I think that has been a huge benefit for me coming from a small country like Norway.

Even if you are a small country, as we are, that doesn't prevent you from having big aspirations.

I think if I would have started BIG in America, I would probably never have called it BIG. There was nothing but a little bit of local small country humor in the idea.

I didn't have the courage to let myself think or dream of acting because I come from Luxembourg - it's a very small country, and I think it's a place you need to get away from to see how big the world is and what's possible.

I come from a small country, and I always dreamt big.

I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.

Being at the Play House, the only way I could see my life was that I would be an actor in a company, doing a lead role one week, a small part the next. That's what I thought I was going to be.

Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.

I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.

I'm a little brother. I've always been small. People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.

Learning to ask is like flexing a muscle. The more you do it, the easier it becomes. I started by learning how to ask for the small things in my life, and eventually I could make the Big Daunting Asks.

I don't like to do small things. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to really make an impact.