Quotes About Ambition

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]

I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home!

Took over my city and I never asked permission to.

I was never meant to sit at home.

It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.

We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.

I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.

I joke that if she [Debbie Wasserman Schultz] could find a 3 a.m. slot in the Home Shopping Network, she would grab that. So those emails only confirm what we knew.

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.

This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.

Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

They will call you crazy once you stop living someone else's dream and start living your own.

If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good.

When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.