Quotes About Ambition

Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.

You gotta prove yourself. I'm not above that. I will never be above that. Bring it!

I just want to do my best to prove myself.

I proved myself in Barcelona, and after I proved myself in Germany, I wanted to prove myself in England.

You can make something out of nothing. I proved that with my career, making it out of the city that I'm from.

I have always wanted to be independent. When I became a producer, people said I would not succeed, but I proved them wrong.

All 'potential' means to me is that you haven't proved anything.

I'd like to be making more films more frequently, but I do find that making movies, for me, has proven to be an extremely challenging road. No movie is easy; no movie has come together quickly.

If I can beat a proven champion like Canelo, that will take my career to a different level.

It's just crazy to have a dream - have a plan - and then it all just kind of comes true. To me, that proves that you have to have a vision first.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.

I don't want to be a glamour doll. I want roles which provide me the scope to perform.

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

I will storm the Gods and shake the Universe

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

He loves power. A terrible love.

For strangely graven Is the orb of life, that one and another In gold and power may outpass his brother. And men in their millions float and flow And seethe with a million hopes as leaven; And they win their Will, or they miss their Will, And the hopes are dead or are pined for still; But whoe'er can know, As the long days go, That To Live is happy, hath found his Heaven!

wealth is honored most of all things by men, and has the greatest influence of any thing among men. In pursuit of which I am come, leading hither ten thousand spears: for a nobly-born man in poverty is nothing.

One would never write a single word if one knew the horrors that lay ahead,' agreed Charlotte. 'But if you sell copies by the sackload, you may well forget the horrors,' I agreed quickly.

Most castles in the air are never built. But Walt Disney's was.

I was just so interested in what I was doing I could hardly wait to get up in the morning and get at it. One of my friends, a geneticist, said I was a child, because only children can't wait to get up in the morning to get at what they want to do. - Dr. Barbara McClintock

Presently [Bridey] said: "If I was Rex"—his mind seemed full of such suppositions: "If I was Archbishop of Westminster," "If I was head of the Great Western Railway," "If I was an actress," as though it were a mere trick of fate that he was none of these things, and he might awake any morning to find the matter adjusted—"if I was Rex I should want to live in my constituency.

Edith and Olive and me have talked it over and we want to go and make aeroplanes.

have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason which he is anxious to conceal.