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Quotes About Ambition

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.
~ Ashton Kutcher
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
~ Matthew Arnold
Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope.
~ Steven Bauer
I hope I can make a show that will inspire a whole other generation of young women and girls to say, "I can do a show like that."
~ Amanda de Cadenet
There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
~ Barbara Bush
The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
~ Lloyd Alexander
It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.
~ Jil Sander
But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.
~ Mel Smith
My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.
~ William Shakespeare
I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.
~ Clyde Tombaugh
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
~ Euripides
I think the endeavor is to just make your film and then hope it travels as much as it can.
~ Karan Johar
I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can't. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.
~ Holly Black
I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.
~ James Madison
I hope everybody could get rich and famous.
~ Jim Carrey
I hope and look forward to the day that there will be a female president of the United States.
~ Priyanka Chopra
When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.
~ Tyra Banks
If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.
~ Aya Cash
All industry must be excited by hope.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.
~ Honore de Balzac
You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.
~ Kate Bush
One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.
~ Bryce Wilson
I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.
~ Henrik Vibskov