Quotes About Ambition

Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.

Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

I was just racing day by day. With Niki [Lauda], every race was to be on the top. He programmed his life to be champion. I enjoyed life. That was the maximum for me.

I think that is a very important component, to have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life.