Quotes About Ambition

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

I made up my mind several years ago that I had worked very hard to get to where I am in life and that I was only going to do things that are fun and exciting.

Life is to short to be small.

I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.

Life is to short to be little.

Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go!

Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging.

Now that I know where this life is going, it's time to decide how I'll get there.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you'll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.

It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.

There wasn't anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies.

Set a master goal for your running and for your life...

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

Sucess in life depends primarily upon three things: discovery of who you are, what you can do best, and where you are going.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you.

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.