Quotes About Ambition

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

My early choice in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.

Sure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing.

a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?).

A mind that is determined to succeed can never fail to achieve.

Always remember, every success story begins with a START. Anyone can desire but there are few who DESERVE.

Be fearless in pursuit of your goal.

Be fearless in the chase of your dream.

The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.

It's funny, isn't it. You plan for years, play 9 tough games, and then your hopes of a World Cup win and the resultant career-high rest on an hour and a half of T20 equivalent cricket.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

And I went to New York and died for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

You may not have been born into success, but you were born to succeed.

Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day.

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

She was determined to live as fully as possible—to write, to travel, to cook, to draw, to love as much and as often as she could. She was, in the words of a close friend, "operatic" in her desires, a "Renaissance woman" molded as much by Romantic sublimity as New England stoicism.5 She was as fluent in Nietzsche as she was in Emerson; as much in thrall to Yeats's gongs and gyres as Frost's silences and snow.

Like her Joycean hero Stephen Dedalus, she was filled with "Icarian lust": she would seek out her destiny abroad, collect experience for her art, and stay in motion.10 Anything to evade the life not lived, the poem not written, the love not realized. Plath spread her wings, over and over, at a time when women were not supposed to fly.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

to believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.

Many of us learn to construct a clear and precise vision of what we want, but we're never taught how to enjoy what we actually have. There will always be more victories to strive for, more strangers to charm, more images to collect and pin to our vision boards. It's hard to want what we have; it's far easier to want everything in the world.

It's not easy to do the things you dream of doing. Sometimes it's not that easy just to get up in the morning. That's how it is for everyone.

Truly believing that my ideas and words have a right to be taken seriously. And if I believed enough in my talents years ago to own them, who knows what I could've created?