Quotes About Ambition

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

she had begun to learn that success was sometimes simply a matter of having the courage to proceed in the direction of one's dreams.

My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

You don't have to know what you want to be. That comes later. But I want you to know what you want to be. That comes later. But I want you to want more than just having a job and muddling through life. I want you to find a passion you believe in strongly enough to risk humiliation and rejection.

People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

Gonzaga were aware of, though seemingly undisturbed by, the rise of a strong merchant class financially outreaching the aristocracy, the hordes of Protestants in the north; and the renewed ambition and drive of the king of France.

Come right out and say you want it: "It's been great hearing you talk about the position. I'd love to work here, and I think I could do a terrific job for you.

You'll see the "going big" theme running through everything I talk about in this section, as well as the rest of the book. You may be just

You want your efforts to pay off. You are hoping that your hard work and go-big-or-go-home undertakings will lead to a terrific promotion or fabulous new job up the ladder. In other words, you want the success you've been gunning for. So

I've loved learning about the position," I said. "It sounds incredibly exciting, and I know I could take the magazine exactly where you want to go.

AMBITION IS NEVER content, even at the summit of greatness," Napoleon declared.

There is one thing alone to do in this world and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power," Napoleon said.15 He

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Keep moving forward...

New York was for people too hungry for life to be anywhere else.

Doctor Dowers," teased Connie. "Listen," said Liz, "after all the crap I had to take in grad school, you bet everyone's calling me Doctor. I'll get my cabdriver to do it if I can. I'll make my mother do it.

I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.

Success is 80 attitude and 20 aptitude.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!