Quotes About Ambition

life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

Walt was a dreamer, but one who pursued his goals with clarity and an almost ferocious intensity." JACK KINNEY DISNEY ANIMATOR

As he grew, what he lacked in formal education, he made up for through diligent, determined reading. The where, when, and how of reading mattered not to Abraham Lincoln, who said, "The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places ... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other thing.

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

It has always been an ambition of mine to serve as an object lesson for others.

If it weren't for his tendency to get bored with easy stuff, he'd never have hired me. Then I'd have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald's or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors.

Then I'd have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald's or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors.

Then I'd have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald's or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors. We worked companionably in silence for

Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.

What do you want then?" I asked. "I don't know all of it yet." William tilted his head back and looked up at the sky, and spread his arms wide. "But I want – first, I want to be me. And then I want to do something large. Something as large as all that country out there that people are settling. Even if I'm not a double seventh.

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

It was now, the day I had been dreaming about for so long. No longer a dream but real. Not to be wasted but to be lived.

There's three things I've seen in this world that seem to make a body happy or miserable. It's not money or health or any of those other things most people talk about. It's knowing where you fit in this world, being able to go after your dreams and love.

Patricia Morrisroe

ALWAYS KEEP YOUR DREAMS ALIVE

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

No one loves you for what you have done, but for what you might do.

Dahmer was a sensitive, shy, and immature young man. He lacked motivation, passion, and ambition—that perhaps can be blamed in part on his habitual drinking problem. There doesn't seem to be any evidence that he attempted to equip himself for a more productive life, and he always allowed alcohol to take over and ruin any progress he did make. Eventually, his crimes, once embarked upon, would become the focus of his entire world.

What motivates you, and why?

to spur themselves into action, procrastinators have to want to do something.

Even if you have the innate ability to do great things, if you're petrified of failure, you won't be able to take the necessary risks to get what you want.

Those that win at office politics definitely aren't the top performers.

intending to push on at night again. We spent a