Quotes About Ambition

There is always a danger that in our asceticism we shall be tempted to imitate the sufferings of Christ. This is a pious but godless ambition, for beneath it there always lurks the notion that it is possible for us to step into Christ's shoes and suffer as he did and kill the old Adam. We are then presuming to undertake that bitter work of eternal redemption which Christ himself wrought for us. The motive of asceticism was more limited--to equip us for better service and deeper humiliation.

There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shadow of every neighborhood. We own little corner stores, live in run-down apartments that get too little light, and walk the same streets day after day. We spend our afternoons gazing lazily out of windows. Somnambulists, all of us. Someone else said it better: we wake to sleep and sleep to wake.

Perhaps she thought, this was the way everything in America actually was- all smoke and mirrors, with only illusions of grandeur.

There is nothing more restless than men in power.

ama insan hayatta her istedi?ini elde edemez ki, mant?kl? olmak gerek...

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

the future doesn't care what you wish.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

Diejenigen, die es "nie zu etwas brachten" (...), hätten es auch überall sonst nie zu etwas gebracht. Es wäre einfach nur lustvoller, es in Paris nie zu etwas zu bringen.

My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.

Anyone can promise the stars. Only you can reach them.

You can find inspiration from others but determination is solely your responsibility.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

If you want to make it in this town, being talented is just one little tiny part of the battle. Fearlessness is mandatory. And shamelessness sure as hell don't hurt.

Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be.

If you want to make it in this town," the woman went on, "being talented is just one little tiny part of the battle. Fearlessness is mandatory. And shamelessness sure as hell don't hurt.

Hell's Kitchen.

Workin' 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin' Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin' They just use your mind and you never get the credit It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it 9 to 5, yeah they got you where they want you There's a better life, and you dream about it, don't you? It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it And you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet

I hope to be an actor and never retire.

Manuel Benítez «El Cordobés» dijo a su hermana en sus comienzos en el mundo del toro, cuando aún era un rapaz sin un duro: «O triunfo o llevarás luto por mí». Aquel primerizo con los estoques se convirtió, andando el tiempo, en el mayor torero de su época. El Cordobés era más toro que los toros

Longing on a large scale is what makes history.