Ambition Quotes - Page 2

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?

Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.

Thoughts are free, talk is cheap, and action is expensive. What's your worth?

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure.

Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'"

[What It Is (2009)]

Live for each second without hesitation

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.

Never give up.
It's like breathing - once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.
Who had nothing, who wanted everything.

Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition