Quotes About Ambition

Io ho sempre voluto tutto Thomas. E mi sono sempre dovuto accontentare di qualcosa.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

Ambition displeases when it has been sated... Having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

Que nous est une patrie si elle ne nous est pas une promesse d'empire?

Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

I used to have visions of flashing lights and red carpets.

I've always had visions of being a starting quarterback. That's why I come to work every day.

You're going to dream no matter what you do in your life, so make those dreams so big that you can attract others who are amazed at your visions and goals.

I used to have visions of being a star all the time, but I never knew I wanted to be a rapper.

During my engineering days, we were taken for an industrial visit. I realised that I can't do a regular job.

I used to visit one production house every day, and I used to take up auditions even for small roles. Before my debut, I must have auditioned at almost every single production house.

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

There are players out there who want to dominate and keep their opponent sitting down. They want to make centuries and win frames at a single visit, and I like to see that.

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

In my days in Russia, I visited some very rich guys. I visited big ships, private airplanes, houses - and I know for sure I don't want this for myself.

Penn State was an awesome school. When I went and visited there, I was like 'Alright, I want to spend four years of college here.'

The first time I ever visited L.A., I wanted to move here. It's the land of opportunity.

When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.