Quotes About Ambition

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

I'm always thinking if I'm not doing something to get ahead in life, someone else is doing it.

Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

It's a very weird thing to know where you want to be in life and all of a sudden to actually have taken some real steps is a very strange feeling. I've really done something that I'm proud of.

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

Hang on to your dreams with everything you got. Because the best life is when your dreams come true. The second-best is when they don't but you never stop chasing them.