Quotes About Ambition

I don't know if there's ever a point where you go, 'Oh, I'm successful now. Look at all this great stuff I've done,' because I don't think it can be tangible in that way.

Motivations are too tangled and complex.

I remember telling the 'Tangled' crew about grimace moments: how when you watch a movie that you worked on and you think, 'Ah, I wish we could have done that scene better,' or, 'I wish that we'd had the time or the money to fix that particular story problem.'

If I ever make a lot of money in the NBA, I'm going to have this massive tank, and it's going to have an alligator in it.

Some people say pain is a fuel for greatness and if that's true, then my tank will forever be full.

When I was at school when I was 16, I was in a quandary because I didn't know whether I wanted to join the army - I had this terrible desire to be a tank driver in the Royal Tank Regiment, genuinely - or whether I wanted to go to art college because half of me wanted to be in the army, and the other half of me wanted to be a surrealist.

Nowadays there's the taping of the boobs. The tanning has become pretty intense with these young ladies. The hair extensions have become very serious... But I hate it when pageant girls get a bad rap, because they really are intelligent women. They're ambitious women; they're driven; they're educated.

A lot of us have energy that we can tap into. We sell ourselves short.

It is that we should learn to pray even while we are dwelling on evil. Perhaps we are waging an interior battle over anger, or lust, or pride, or greed, or ambition. We need not isolate these things from prayer.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn't hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life and that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.

I've come a long way to get nowhere at all, I thought. And I've spent everything I have to get here.

Kids need their minds blown every now and then. It'll keep them from thinking that managing a McDonald's is the most they can hope for.

The winners are the schemers and the ruthless who take what they want, not the suckers standing around hoping for an even break.

There are disadvantages.You shouldn't join a star venture if you are lazy, a loner, in poor health, don't want to be committed, tired of life or in a relationship that is already shaky - it would not survive the competition! Otherwise, it's a 'no-brainer'.

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

There are people who want to achieve--and then there are sane people.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

It's a philosophy promoted by Silicon Valley start-ups that the best people are those who don't know that something "can't be done," and therefore will figure out how to do it.

I see the people that do the real work, and what in a way is really sad is that the people that are often the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better don't really have the ambition and ego to be a leader—they don't see any interest in the rewards, they don't care if their names ever appear in the press, they actually enjoy the process of helping others, they are truly in the moment.

Dream is destiny.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.