Quotes About Ambition

having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.

If you're going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don't even start.

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

I believe that to be the world's greatest living writer there must be something terribly wrong with you. I don't even want to be the world's greatest dead writer. just being dead would be fair enough.

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

I know what a park bench is and the landlord's knock. There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

The Artist, an ancient sage had once said, is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.

What will you do? Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie. What are you going to call it? Hollywood. Hollywood? Yes...

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

ambition rarely has anything to do with talent. Luck is best, and talent limps along a little bit behind luck.

He's sick on the dream. We're all sick on the dream, that's why we're out here.

Dismiss perfection as an ache of the greedy, but do not give in to the mass modesty of easy imperfection.

If you are going to try, go all the way, otherwhise don't even start.

Maybe I'd be a bank robber. Some god-damned thing. Something with flare, fire. You only had one shot. Why be a window washer?

Baby, that's grammar school. Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working. Out here we call it hustling. I'd like to be a good hustler.

all the poets wanted to get disability insurance it was better than immortality.

All's fair in hate and Hollywood.

Now, I thought, pushing my cart along, I have this job. Is this to be it? No wonder men robbed banks. There were too many demeaning jobs. Why the hell wasn't I a superior court judge or a concert pianist? Because it took training and training cost money. But I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding

Manny, what are you doing working in auto parts?" "Resting. My ambition is handicapped by laziness.