Quotes About Ambition

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

Jump high and hard with intention and heart.

I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it.

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

Success is creating a state of mind that allows you to obtain anything you really desire.

To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.

Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.

Big success requires big sacrifices. Don't find out later that the cost was too high. Denial is said to be even more potent than cocaine; neither drug enhances your marketability.

It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

Self confidence is the ground stone of success

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

Success is not only one thing. Its not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

Success will come. Or it won't. But I think you can only make a go at it in a big way by fully being yourself and taking risks. People can feel risks.