Quotes About Ambition

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Believe in and follow your dreams.

Was this adulthood? This pruning of dreams to be practical?

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.

If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.

I hope that I'll be hot for a long time so I can make a lot of money, I can retire early, and just travel. Hopefully that will happen.

This time I really am going to light the world on fire,' she said, laughing. 'I finally have a fucking match.

In the mirror, she'd seen more than her face. She'd seen the girl she'd been before all of this. A dreamer, a believer. Someone who would go places. How had she forgotten all of that?

we] have a mighty dislike of all intentional effort and are addicted to absolute laziness until circumstances prod [us] into action.

Is this perfection, or the cost of it?

The republic is a dreamNothing happens unless first a dream.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the sea fearing man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny

What likely dazzled the Ambassador even more than her sophisticated facade was his sense that she was covertly angling toward something greater. "It's not what you are that counts," he famously declared, "but what people think you are.

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

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