Quotes About Ambition

It made a good daydream, but I've learned that if you want dreams to come true, you have to take action.

discovered, she had tired of what she was doing. Her contract with Derval for the Folies performances was coming to an end. Pepito decided to focus on making her as famous as possible, and he arranged a long tour to 25 countries in Europe and South America. Before starting the tour,

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

The ambition should always be to play an elegant game.

I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.

The Sky's the Limit

Go and live the lives you've imagined.

When I started on this I had forty-forty vision.

Fleur who had started from nothing, who had no rich parents

From the very beginning it seemed very clear to her that if you were going to succeed in life you succeeded on your own terms, in your own style, you capitalized on your own strengths, you learnt to camouflage your own weaknesses and you didn't get caught up in anyone else's. And Fleur was going to succeed.

Penny Vincenzi

that if I let myself go, did not always slow me down by thinking so much beforehand I could achieve many things I would never have dreamt possible!!

I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in this world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales.

The desire of the moth for the star

How long do you mean to be content?

You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

The first step to success it's to imagine it

Destiny? My destiny is what I make of it!

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.