Quotes About Ambition

Since my childhood, I have been watching Telugu films. It was always my dream to make it big here.

I have sung a couple of songs in Telugu and Hindi films, but I was not happy with that. So, I thought of doing an album. I do not know how people will react.

Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

I just remember saying to myself, 'I want to be a super jock.' I don't want to be just some radio personality in some town somewhere doing the time and temperature and the latest song.

America is a place where you can succeed no matter who you are. I am proof of that. But you must work very hard and be willing to endure pain. You must set a goal and win in the marketplace no matter what the air temperature. You must pay the price for success.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.

When I was 20, I was the hustler - rubbing my temples, stressed, trying to get out the streets, trying to take my life to another side of the game with something I really loved to do: rap music.

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

ambitious intelligence [is] a force that can demolish the 'heart's reasons' — namely, a warm empathy, a considerateness toward others, a willingness, even, to let them become one's teachers, however humble or troubled their lives.

Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Often, when a man is young and idealistic, he believes that if he works hard and does the right thing, success will follow.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

On that long road to success, and I emphasize the word long, you will stumble. You have the choice of remaining on the ground or you can pick yourself up, and struggle again on that path that you hope will take you to the career or the success that you have dreamed of. Don't give up, just persevere."   Justice Joyce Kennard Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court

kind of person who could achieve anything if only he wasn't dysfunctional enough not to.

Robert Dickie

Someone once said that failure is easier to live with than regret, and it pierced my heart like an arrow. Dreams are hard to catch, aren't they? Especially if you don't have the courage to try.

You just need to show a little initiative and you could have my job someday." Hooray! At least I'd have a window to throw myself out of when the boredom becomes unbearable. "So

But I know you. You'll hem and haw for a bit, but in the end, you'll go because you hate to lose—at anything.