Quotes About Ambition

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

I certainly won't have an empty life!

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

The purpose of life is to live your dreams, you should never smother your wishes.

Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires greatness, at least at some point in their life.

Anybody can have a life. Careers are hard to come by.

You might be a redneck if your biggest ambition in life is to git that big ole coon. The one what hangs 'round over yonder, back'ah Bubba's barn.

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.

There's always competition out there. That's what makes life exciting.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what's wrong with that?

Life is a beautiful thing. But you're always striving to be better in your art, striving to be heard. And obviously in a movie business, it's striving to be noticed and appreciated.

I gradually stopped wondering, 'What life do I have?' and began to consider, 'What life can I build?

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

Don't give up your life because balance is important, but when you're young you have energy, use it!

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

Take what you can from your dreams, Make them as real as anything...

I'm only this far, and only tomorrow leads my way.

As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

Unleash your life's potential! Don't hold back on the things you've always wanted to do. Go for it!

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.