Quotes About Ambition

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough, and the old applause.

There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be successful, rich and famous, but if those are our goals, we're off on the wrong foot. ... I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

Hardships, poverty and want are the best incentives, and the best foundation, for the success of man.

The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

Now landsmen all, whoever you may be, If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool, Be careful to be guided by this golden rule - Stick close to your desks and never go to to sea, And you may all be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

It's the steady, constant driving to the goal for which you're striving, not the speed with which you travel, that will make your victory sure.

I've been failing for like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.

If something doesn't come up the way you want, you have to forge ahead.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mold a pin, or fabricate a nail!

You have to set new goals every day.

To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.