Quotes About Ambition

Maybe you're not difficult to live with at all, maybe you're just a busy, successful, beautiful woman who won't settle for anything but the best.

A woman should always know her place, and it's exactly wherever she wants to be.

I thought he wanted it, anyway, " I say. "Not like this, " Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

D.D.R.C.T. which stands for "Dreams Do Really Come True". Yes, I'm a firm believer about that. I can even stand in a crowd and be an ambassador of Dreams Do Come True Club.

Courage, will-power and confidence in your abilities will carry you to greater heights.

I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

Best of luck in your future endeavors!

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.

You have to compensate for the luck thing by working as hard as you can and doing the very best you can do.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaning that state of mind known as a BURNING DESIRE TO WIN, essential to success.

It was no ordinary DESIRE that survived disappointment, discouragement, temporary defeat, criticism, and the constant reminding of waste of time. It was a BURNING DESIRE! AN OBSESSION!