Quotes About Ambition

Do not desire what you can't acquire.

It's the far-off cows that wear the biggest horns.

You're bound to succeed if you have ignorance and confidence.

As for the Wings, I wanted to tighten some already painfully tight screws, to force on them the kind of cruel question no one should have to answer: am I willing to go through what surely I must, for something I will surely never get?

Why don't more people set goals? In general, psychologists point to seven reasons: They have not yet accepted personal responsibility for their lives. Many

Her only life ambition was to read every good book that had ever been published.

The fights are so vicious because the stakes are so small." Everybody here has got here by intense competition, moderated by character assassination.

The plan is to marry a doctor, It's either that or become a trolley-dolly and hit on a pilot.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Sometimes, of course, your loved ones genuinely think you would be wasting your time and talents doing something of which they disapprove.

For most of us the problem isn't that we aim too high and fail - it's just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed.

But no matter how far he flew, he didn't get any closer to the sun.

What I hate most is the majority that rests in comfort upon its mediocre accomplishments.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

With my book in one hand And my drink in the other What more could I want But fame, Better health, And ten million dollars?

If you have a dream, you have a responsibility to yourself and to us to make it come true. That's the most important thing in your life. Don't let anything stand in its way.

Your Earth Walk is the way you live your life. It is the way you express your personality. The way you live out your dreams. Your aspirations. Your hopes. Your fears. Is your Earth Walk an aimless stroll or a weary trudge? Or is it the brisk determined stride of ambition?

Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?" A smile soared across my face. "As high as I possibly can.

What have you done?' I whispered. She swallowed, and the guilt in her eyes was extinguished by a flare of defiance. 'This,' she said, 'is my ticket to outer space.'

Ambition is the weakness of all the great spirits who in acceptance will find the joy & the despair the seek. The physician can only cure when he is willing to assume your disease. To be shunned is to be God a little...

I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.