Quotes About Ambition

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

No one limits your growth but you. If you want to earn more, learn more. That means you´ll work harder for a while; that means you'll work longer for a while. But you'll be paid for your extra effort with enhanced earnings down the road

How many no's am I willing to accept on my way to success?

You are and will become that which you think about most of the time.

In this profession, no one limits your income but you. There are no income ceilings.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world. —Theodore Roosevelt,

Master-meaning! Concealed revealment! I spent my twenties wanting to be Lévi-Strauss – which is ironic, since he spent most of his life wanting to be somebody or something else: a philosopher, say, or novelist, or poet.

Without a target to shoot at, our lives are literally aimless. Without something productive to do, without positive goals and a purpose, a human being languishes. And then one of two things happens. Aimlessness begins to shut a person down in spiritual lethargy and emptiness, or the individual lashes out and turns to destructive goals just to make something happen.

Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads...

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

Saddle your dreams before you ride them.

Only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours

Your dream career can be a nightmare without a backup plan

I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.

Holdfast the Dream

Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.

I don't know what 'the big time' is really, except that it's probably some terrible place you can't get out of, you know… or you fall from it and break all your bones, or you try to go further and burn up.

On Wall Street he and a few others—how many?—three hundred, four hundred, five hundred?—had become precisely that… Masters of the Universe.

Do you want to be extraordinary? Do extraordinary things.

Do you want to become famous? Do famous things.