Quotes About Ambition

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.

I think 40 is a good age to run a country. But I've always been fast.

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.

Never be afraid to chase your dream at any age.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.

If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying.

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

Get fired, no one will call you a quitter.

Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier.

I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods.

An infinitely greedy sovereign is afoot in the universe, staking his claims.

The big idea of education, from first to last, is the idea of a better place. Not a better place where you are, because you want it to be better and have been to school and learned to make it better, but a better place somewhere else. In order to move up, you have got to move on.

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods. Twelfth

Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.

The most exemplary nature is that of the topsoil...It increases by experience, by the passage of seasons over it, growth rising out of it and returning to it, not by ambition or aggressiveness. It is enriched by all things that die and enter into it. It keeps the past, not as history or as memory, but as richness, new possibility...

He loved to handle cash, and he drove himself and all that belonged to him in the direction of money as if it were as far off as heaven and as if he were running out of time;

Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.

Somewhere underneath of all the politics, the ambition, the harsh talk, the power, the violence, the will to destroy and waste and maim and burn, was this tenderness. Tenderness born into madness, preservable only by suffering, and finally not preservable at all. What can love do? Love waits, if it must, maybe forever.