Quotes About Ambition

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.

Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

I respect anyone who achieves something that countless others have dared to try before and failed.

What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.

Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.

When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.

I would love to get into feature films; Im willing to do an action flick, Im willing to do a romantic comedy.

She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?

Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything.

I would love to do a sweeping romantic period drama, like Jane Eyre. That would be my dream. It's always been my dream, as far as acting.

I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.

To get what I wanted I became the monster I've always hated...

It's funny how, no matter what we have in life, we're never satisfied.

Get lost in what might be, and you'll lose your will.

Don't go chasing after daydreams when the reality is much more suitable and willing.