Quotes About Ambition

I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun.…I believe that where there is action, there is movement, and those ripples will eventually produce something positive.

Move in silence & Let your success make all the noise

A willing heart adds feather to the heel, And makes the clown a winged Mercury.

I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.

What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humpfrey Bogart?

She said that instead of conquering Everest, I could conquer the conqueror of Everest and while he had to go climb the mountain, I could stay home in lazy comfort listening to the radio and eating chocolates. She was upset, I suppose, but you can't imbibe someone's success by fucking them.

How am I to put this together with my human life, my intellectual life, my solitude, my transcendence, my brains, and my fearful, fearful ambition?

I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.

He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"

He gained a world; he gave that worldIts grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

Lewis said sadly to me, 'When I at last realized that I was not, after all, going to be a great man...' I think he meant 'a great poet.

If you imagine where you want to go, you stand a much better chance of getting there.

You are the only person I've ever met who goes the other direction from the things she wants

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

How will your experience pave the way for a new voice in America? I hope it will take you out these doors, out into the open air. You will breathe it in your lungs and say, "From now on, this life will be what I stand for . . . Move over–this is my story now."

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Summer estaba en lo cierto, después de todo: sería una increíble Titania. Si lo consigue ella, ¿a mí qué? Podría ser un Duende mejor, y eso podría ser más divertido de todos modos. Parezco una malvada andrógina ahora, con mi cabello corto. Probablemente sería un estupendo Duende, en realidad, ahora que lo pienso. ¿Quién dice que tengo que ser la Reina de las Hadas?

Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.

The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do...

There's no disappointment like getting what you've always wanted...

It's not easy is it? Being a great man's son. You'd thought that would come with all kinds of advantages - with borrowed admiration, and respect. But it's only as easy as it is for the seeds of a great tree, trying to grow in its choking shadow. Not many make it to the sunlight for themselves.

It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort.