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Quotes About Ambition

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
~ Maya Angelou
Mediocrity always attacks excellence.
~ Michael Beckwith
Come on 'long prosperous life!'
~ Mitch Hedberg
Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.
~ Napoleon Hill
MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.
~ Nelson Mandela
The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America.
~ Paul Ryan
I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.
~ Orlando Bloom
Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
~ John Ortberg
I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.
~ Joseph Barbera
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.
~ Julia Cameron
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
~ Kris Kristofferson
Turn off any self-talk that tells you that you are destined to live a small life. You're not.
~ Loral Langemeier
If you have a dream in your life, go ahead it's possible, go ahead
~ Lyoto Machida
I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.
~ Martin Scorsese
It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.
~ Maurice de Vlaminck
That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.
~ Clyde Tombaugh
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
~ Ian McEwan, Atonement
Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?
~ Sidney Sheldon, Bloodline
You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.
~ Jewel
if you're going to use the word 'dream' in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.
~ Jewelle Gomez