Quotes About Ambition

Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti died on 17 February 1564. "Your greatness is measured by your horizons

When we don't ask for much, we also send a message that we're not really serious.

I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed it was a pearl of wisdom from some great thinker, a philosopher perhaps, like Descartes. It turned out to be Walt Disney, which in no way diminishes the wisdom of the advice. Anyone who can build a Magic Kingdom deserves to be listened to.

Victory! Catherine wanted to pull the front of her top over her head and run around the office making V-signs. Of course she wouldn't do that

I work my hardest at everything. That's just achieving, not overachieving.

All I've ever wanted was to go pro ever since my dad first put me in hockey when I was 7. Some of the other kids go to fancy hockey camps in the summer and practice with the best coaches, but I never could. My folks are divorced and even working two jobs, my mom could barely keep up with the rent, so my hockey fees were partly subsidized and my dad paid the rest. There was no money available to help my performance. I had to earn my chops on the ice by myself.

As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.

I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.

Another girl who wanted too much too desperately, and knew neither how to get it nor how to make it stop.

What does she need with architecture?" "The same thing my mother needed with eight languages," I replied boldly. "She commanded the best diplomats in the world, but she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself.

Every Englishman is born with a certain miraculous power that makes him master of the world. When he wants a thing, he never tells himself that he wants it. He waits patiently until there comes into his mind, no one knows how, a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who have got the thing he wants. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, 1897

Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.

Mensen offeren iets omdat ze iets willen. De Kraaien moet heel graag iets hebben gewild als ze er een hele vallei voor hebben laten afbranden.

Happiness, wealth, true love. Just like everybody else." "That's all?" "What else is there that matters?" He shrugged a shoulder. "Destruction, vengeance, power, world domination." Her smile stretched but it didn't reach her eyes. "Those are fun too.

He always had this thing about him, that he wouldn't nominate himself to run in the race. But if he was put in the race, he would want to win it. It's a strange thing. He has a healthy disrespect - and respect - for his own ego. He knows what he's capable of, and he would not push himself forward. He would rather hang back in the shadows and be discovered.

British climbers were driven as much by the fear of shame as they were by the lure of fame and glory. 4

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.

When I'm 33, I quit.

You don't expect me to be doing this when I am THIRTY, do you?

I'd rather die than be 45 and still singing 'Satisfaction.