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Quotes About Ambition

all his life, all he's ever wanted was to be Kung Fu guy. But when he finally got it, he realizes what his mother meant. 'You can be more.
~ Charles Yu
Bruce Lee was the guy you worshipped. Older Brother was the guy you dreamt of growing up to be.
~ Charles Yu
Ever since you were a boy, you've dreamt of being Kung Fu Guy. You're not Kung Fu Guy. But maybe, just maybe, tomorrow will be the day.
~ Charles Yu
Ever since you were a boy, you've dreamt of being Kung Fu Guy.
~ Charles Yu
At first it's just for the time being, until you can get your own story together, be the hero in something of your own. You tell people it's your day job, you tell yourself it's your day job, and then, at some point, without you noticing, it stops being your day job and just becomes your job.
~ Charles Yu
And I'll be?" "Whatever you want, man," she says. "A guy can dream," you say. "Cheers to that." You touch your small coffee cups to each other's, a toast to something you both know will never happen.
~ Charles Yu
It's the way things are. You do the cop show. You get your little check. You wonder: Can you change it? Can you be the one who actually breaks through?
~ Charles Yu
Black and White always look good. A lot of it has to do with the lighting, designed to hit their faces just right. Someday you want the light to hit your face like that. To look like the hero. Or for a moment to actually be the hero
~ Charles Yu
You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Insisten?a e calea spre a ob?ine ce vrei.
~ Charlie Chaplin
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
~ Charlie Chaplin
When you develop an attitude of "I'm going to accomplish what I want even if I have to work twice as hard as anybody else," you're going to get there.
~ Charlie Daniels
They're always there, nipping at your heels. If you can't hold your spot, they'll gladly take it.
~ Charlie Daniels
Then maybe I'll sneak into Buckingham Palace and slit his chicken throat one night.
~ Charlie Higson
Somehow, the city of promise had become a scrap yard of dreams. But fighters do what they do best when they've
~ Charlie LeDuff
Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
~ Charlie Sheen
You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.
~ Charlize Theron
People thought that when you got old, you wanted your lost youth, or lost love, or men, or sex. But really you wanted work and you wanted money.
~ Charlotte Wood
Chas Newkey-Burden
~ promoter had
Taylor Swift was never meant to be a singer-songwriter; she was supposed to become a stockbroker.
~ Chas Newkey-Burden
Quitters never win. And Winners never quit.. Rip MM?º
~ Chasity
How did I get here? I'm not rich. Not a mutant. Not a genius. Not a natural. I just try harder. I always have.
~ Chelsea Cain
When I was a kid, I did everything I could to get super-powers. Why? I wanted to be a hero. I wanted to be Captain America. Sometimes I fall short.
~ Chelsea Cain
Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.
~ Cher