Quotes About Ambition

Live simple, but don't stop dreaming. The world is not yours to hold, but you can manage it in your own time.

Clint Richmond

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself and your dreams.

Americans have an annoying habit of accomplishing what they set out to do.

When absolute power is on offer, talent fights to get in.

Devotees who say that À la recherche du temps perdu reminds them of a cathedral should be asked which cathedral they mean. It reminds me of a sandcastle that the tide reached before its obsessed constructor could finish it; but he knew that would happen, or else why build it on a beach?

As the late Edward W Said wrote after the attack on the World Trade Center, 'Western humanism is not enough: we need a universal humanism.' I agree with that. The question is how to get it, and my own view is that it can't be had unless we raise our demands on ourselves a long way beyond decorating our lives with enough cultivation to make the pursuit of ambition look civilized.

Tom Stoppard was refreshingly candid when, after the successful premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, he was asked what the play was about: "It's about to make me a lot of money.

Many attempt without success to make up for their lack of talent with defects of character.

Hitler wouldn't have needed to find someone else. Someone else would have found him. When absolute power is on offer, talent fights to get in.

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.

Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

Make it on your own if you think you can. If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

I ain't gonna lie. I like having my girl take care of me this way. I can't wait 'til she finish high school and we can live together somewhere on our own. I'ma support her while she in college, pay all the bills and shit, and she can take care of me like this everyday. Man, that's the way I wanna be living.

I shall have everything ... and I shall lean over the edge of a white terrace smothered with the roses of my gardens and shall see the lords of the earth, the wanderers, pass by!'" - Colette, La Vagabonde