Quotes About Ambition

I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success.

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Its motto was grand: "There are no limitations, no boundaries; since we are on our own, there is nothing we cannot do; when you start with nothing you can do everything.

You have to want it, want it so bad you will never give up, so bad that you are ready to sacrifice time, money, sleep, friendships, even your reputation," he writes. "You will have to adopt a particular lifestyle of ambition, not just for a few weeks or months but for years and years and years. You have to want it so bad that you are not only ready to fail, but you actually want to experience failure: revel in it, learn from it.

Deliberate practice requires a mind-set of never, ever, being satisfied with your current ability. It requires a constant self-critique, a pathological restlessness, a passion to aim consistently just beyond one's capability so that daily disappointment and failure is actually desired, and a never-ending resolve to dust oneself off and try again and again and again.

Serious converts to the game usually have some powerful motivation—perhaps unknown to them—for investing in the game at a particular time in their lives.

Always pursue glory. Shine like the stars. Burn up with ambition. Shed your old skin. Try, try, and try again. Fail, fail, and fail again. But fail better, and one day you will not fail at all.

You against the world … Bet on the World. The world is never going to change for you. Unless you are a world-historic figure. Well, are you?

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

On his early decision to become an actor: "I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

Two struggling musicians, always broke, forever hopeful.

How could anyone be"Cary Grant"? But how can anyone, ever after, not consider the attempt?

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

En esta vida tenemos el deber de perseguir nuestros sueños. De lo contrario, sólo estaremos perdiendo el tiempo.

In his dreams, he would be a hero. In his life, he felt like a zero.

David Walliams

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A fractured, flawed man, he combined elements of George Borup, Robert Peary, and Lord Byron.

There is no possibility of pursuing a work without coming to terms with all the ways it is impossible to do it. Feeling far away from what we want tells us one of two things about our work: that we are at the beginning or that we have

Ambition is natural to the first steps of youth, who must experience its essential falsity to know the larger reality that stands behind it, but held on to too long, and especially in eldership, it always comes to lack surprise, turns the last years of the ambitious into a second childhood, and makes the once successful into an object of pity.