Quotes About Ambition

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.

I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.

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

I need to be in charge, and that comes from when I was growing up and money was always an issue. I didn't want to feel the fear of poverty again, and I suppose, in that way, I qualify as Thatcher Youth.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

Mum snuck me into speech and drama classes and into the National Youth Theatre and said I was going on a summer camp if Dad asked.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

Yeah, I probably got in too much trouble as a youth to be a politician.

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.

I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.

In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.