Quotes About Ambition

The world has no boundaries for someone who savors success and is willing to work for it.

I'd no particular ambitions beyond being either widely admired or stealthily influential—I was torn between the two.

The next day I lay out on the grass in our backyard and I looked straight into the sun, the way my mother had told me never to do because it would damage my eyes. I thought that I would grow up to be a famous artist and everything and everyone I saw, everything and everyone I painted, would be blinding to look at.

The ambition of most beings is just to stay alive, overeat, spend too much, and avoid hard work. I'm happy that I can achieve much more than that…and we all die sooner or later. A death in service of a great ideal is a fine thing.

Sua mãe e eu sempre ficávamos muito satisfeitos, em segredo, com o fato de você ser tão determinada e intensa em relação a suas causas. Quando você foi embora, entendemos que essas eram as qualidades que definem os homens como espertos e ambiciosos e as mulheres como um problema.

That was the only thing Lydia cared about now—money: how much she could make, how much she could hold on to. Four marriages, a son, a grandson, and all she had to show for it were these cold little objects scattered around her pristine mansion.

These were the qualities that painted young me as smart and ambitious and young woman as trouble.

No one understood striving for second place. It was un-American. "She just wanted peace

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

When I was younger I wanted to be a caricaturist. In the end, I've become a caricature.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti.

Why make it easy when you could make it as difficult for yourself as possible? She was a woman, so, technically speaking, she could do anything.

She could have started up a branch library (or a spectacular house fire)

Sometimes you wondered why anyone bothered crawling out of the cradle when what lay ahead was so darn difficult.

I dreamt of going on the stage once, he said, looking crestfallen. It's never too late, I said vaguely. A lie, of course, as often, unfortunately, it is much too late.

You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

What man has done, man can aspire to do.

Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

I like the way you hustle man.