Quotes About Ambition

The cemetery is where a young hustla go to retire, and prison is where he goes to grow old.

There were many days when [I] did not know where my next meal was coming from. But I was never afraid to work, I went where some men were digging a ditch ... [and] said I wanted to work. The boss looked at my good clothes and white hands and laughed to the others ... but he said, "All right. Spit on your hands. Get in the ditch." And I worked harder than anybody. At the end of the day I had $2

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

I am unwilling to accord to some small?minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease.

Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.

The longer I live, the more I rebel. I'm not going to give in; I want to conquer the world!

But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.

I'm going to make a jug, I'm going to make a plate, I'm going to make a lamp and the devil knows what more! That's what you might call being a man: freedom! "Well?" I asked. "What about your finger?" Oh, it got in my way in the wheel. It always got plumb in the middle of things and upset my plans. So one day I seized a hatchet…

Pero desde el primer momento RJ mantuvo la vista fija en su objetivo, que era convertirse en la mejor médico posible.

Do not be reluctant to value yourself highly, for others do so. Nor should you hesitate to aspire to any goal, because God has been lavish in his gifts to you.

He wanted his life to be painted with the strongest colors he could find.

Una empresa intelectual más ambiciosa origina una coherente comprensión del mundo.

Amnesia constrains ambition and inoculates against patience. Still

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave?

If you don't want something, it's hard—in the movie business, especially.

Por cada ejecutivo que cometía un error, una subrayadora a la que echar la culpa. Pero estábamos muy a principios de los sesenta, demasiado pronto para que yo me fijara en esas cosas y, además, empezaba a ver que probablemente nunca ascendería a redactora en Newsweek.

Bernice Gera turned out to be only human, after all, which is not a luxury pioneers are allowed.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

I would love to be a sellout if only someone would ask.

Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow

It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation.

She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?

When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.

Some people refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most, because you're afraid someday you might lost it.