Quotes about Ambition

I've known since I was about six that I wanted to be an actor, but I grew up in a very small country town, and it was just not something that was possible.

The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

If you have more dreams than achievements-you're young.

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

I want you to learn that you cannot have anything without working for it. The only way you can be taken advantage of is if you think you can get something for nothing.

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Can't do is like Don't Care.' Neither of them have a home. Translated, that meant there was nothing a person can't do, and there should be nothing a human being didn't care about. It was the most positive encouragement I could have hoped for.