Quotes About Ambition

Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.

discovering (or creating) new market space (that is, innovation!) should be the goal and ambition of every company.

You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.

In other words, both the descriptive ('women are gentle') and the prescriptive ('women should be gentle') elements of gender stereotypes create a problem for ambitious women. Without any intention of bias, once we have categorised someone as male or female, activated gender stereotypes can then colour our perception. When the qualifications for the job include stereotypically male qualities, this

We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.

He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.

The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

They wanted me to crawl," she told Magdalena finally. "And I'm ready to run.

We are a generation of young women who were told we could do anything and instead heard that we had to be everything.

I wanna be the girl with the most cake.

I want to be the girl with the most cake.

When you're young and full of invulnerable optimism, dreams are as easy as "Oh, I'll just try that." Everything seems attainable

The trouble with success is that it's never enough. You always want more.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.

I don't know why I was so afraid of failure; the most interesting people I know have failed more than they have succeeded. This may be because life is not as simple as it appears to a desperately ambitious young man, or it could be that all my friends are losers.