Quotes About Ambition

For a while I considered dropping out of Barnard to help. It felt unbearably selfish, just downright wrong, to be indulging myself with

I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet. That was the kind of person I wanted to be.

Dad, I said, you'll never build the Glass Castle.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

You have to aspire to everything to have hopes of doing something.

what summits would I not reach if my own life made the subject of the melody.

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to put the work in!!

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again.

It was a real dream come true just to get the job [in Moana], and yeah, and we sort of got right to work.

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.

Maybe I have to work a bit harder on clay. It's a challenge and I've always liked challenges. Whether I will ever win the French and master playing on clay, who knows? But I'll give it a shot.

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.