Quotes About Ambition

Becoming a fae leader? Not on my bucket list.

The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.

He's thought he was willing to do anything in order to get what he wanted, what was right for his kind. He'd been certain any sacrifice was possible.He'd been wrong.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.

George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never got a dinner!

I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?

You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

What I learned from my father is to think big.

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.