Quotes About Ambition

If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it.

(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.

You'd figure he'd go do something with his life, like maybe he could enlist and actually become a marine!

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away.

When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.

I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life

And I been waitin' all my life And I been havin' big dreams times twice

If people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.

Some things in life, you don't get. You gotta go take it... Or you'll never have'em.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.