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Quotes About Ambition

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
~ Steven Wright
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
~ William Faulkner
Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
~ Lionel Barrymore
The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.
~ Will Smith
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
~ Carl Sandburg
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
~ Woody Allen
If I tell you I want to be a door-to-door salesman, dont knock it.
~ Jarod Kintz
If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!
~ Unknown
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
~ Brian Tracy
When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)
~ Unknown
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
~ Carl Sandburg
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
~ Wayne Dyer
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
~ Milton Berle
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.
~ Fred Shero
I think the real soldiers out there are those making it to the top of their dreams, despite the obstacles being faced.
~ Terry Mark
If you want to be a successful man you shouldn't follow these two things: alcohol and women.
~ Unknown
I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us
~ Louisa May Alcott
Give a woman a job and she grows balls.
~ Unknown
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
~ Amelia Earhart
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
~ Margaret Thatcher
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
~ Betty Friedan
If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do.
~ Helen Lawrenson