Quotes About Ambition

You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

I want to do music the rest of my life.

I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.

I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

Some of the best motivation in life is trying to impress a girl.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.