Quotes About Ambition

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not ending up poisoned on the ground.

I want to be a part of great things.

There's so many great things that come with being successful. The one thing that is weird is trying to figure out whose intentions are in the right place, and who is really on your team.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Great businessmen are creators.

I never had a great role in a great film.

While I enjoy and have enjoyed great success building my own personal apparel and accessories collections, my greatest passion has and will always be real estate.

No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

Average people push great people out of a company.

'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.

Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry about trying to be famous as a singer. It's not for everyone.

There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

A man works for his own dreams but a great man works for their dreams.

You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.