Quotes About Ambition

It is the biggest sporting occasion in the world when it comes around so I want to be there, I want to play multiple Ryder Cups. I just want to be part of that whole thing.

I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it.

I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.

On some occasions, it is every footballer's dream to play for the national team, but if you don't reach it, you always need to work harder to reach a higher level, a level you wouldn't reach if you didn't have this as a goal.

Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.

As far as I am concerned, ambition is the most dangerous occupation in the world. I have never been ambitious, or if I have, it's only been by default.

Dreaming is a lifetime occupation.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

American's capacity for real estate improvement; build yourself a house, grow fat in it, and die.

As the Maestro is never loath to tell us, a human who suffers from too much ambition succeeds only in exemplifying the Creator's own lack of anticipation. The D.K., wishing His Vision to be innovative, had created the human will as an instinct all but free of Him. Once again, God had miscalculated.

I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.

If men could move out of infancy at half a mile an hour and get up to eighteen thousand miles an hour in one lifetime, well, who was to assume that the walls of the universe were safe from future men?

You, Lowell, beloved poet of many, what do you know of the dirt and the dark deliveries of the necessary? What do you know of dignity hard-achieved, and dignity lost through innocence, and dignity lost by sacrifice for a cause one cannot name. What do you know about getting fat against your will, and turning into a clown of an arriviste baron when you would rather be an eagle or a count, or rarest of all, some natural aristocrat from these damned democratic states.

I may never wind up being anything, but I owe it to myself to build my integrity.

The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation

The perception of the possibility of greatness in myself has always been followed by desire to murder the nearest unworthy.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones.

what you can image you can be.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Let the challenge of your ambitions, of your aspirations, rouse your slumbering and often unused powers into action.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.