Quotes About Ambition

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

The A-B-C's of Living Life's Purpose: A=Accept all things you can't change. B=Be Grateful for all that you have. C=Constantly create progress towards to your goals & dreams.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle.

The great blessing of life is the existence of tomorrows - and having dreams to realize.

And if I didn't, I'd spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I'd had the guts to try.

I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't know, because I won't ever dare ask that question.

final direction of the elementary town I advance for as long as forever is.

Driven by the hunger for fame and originality, we are like these monkeys, thinking that we are so clever in discovering things and convincing our fellow humans to see what we see, think what we think, driven by ambition to be the savior, the clever one, the seer of all. We have all kinds of small ambitions, such as impressing a girl, or big ambitions, such as landing on Mars. And

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.

Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in this wide, wide world. And maybe, just maybe, he'd come back one day, and burn that fucking palace to the ground.

Johnny. Johnny wanted to run a marathon. He wanted to go mile upon mile, proving his lungs would not give out. Proving he was the man Granddad wanted him to be, proving his strength, though he was so small. His lungs filled with smoke. He has nothing to prove now. There is nothing to run for.

To ascend, to stretch a hand up the mountainside until a hand catches it, was the end for which he had been born.

Ben Franklin said: "Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy wealthy and wise" Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father: "Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.

Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in the wide, wide world. And maybe, just maybe, he'd come back one day, and burn that fucking palace to the ground

I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.

In America, here is how we operate: We work for what we want, and we get ahead. We never take no for answer, and we deserve the rewards of our perseverance.

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.