Quotes About Ambition

A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

Wolves eat cats for dinner. By God, I wanna be a wolf. ~Kane Tyler~

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.

God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.

Don't be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.

Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me take care of you.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.

Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well.

I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

Oh God, make me good, but not yet.

Well, there's nothing I've done I'm not proud of. Making money was an interest, but it's never been my god.

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

I've only had one dramatic role in my entire career and when I did it, I was in heaven and I thought, 'Oh my god, I'm going to get more of these.'

no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.

Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day after partridges, or a little rubber ball? wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?

God knows, I haven't always been successful.

Oh no. Oh God. I couldn't possibly be so stupid." "Don't limit yourself. You can be anything you wish.

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.