Ambition is the bridge between reality and living a dream.

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left...

I know what you want. One month after the ascension of Philippe the Gullible, M. Laclos found in a gutter, deceased. Blamed on a traffic accident. Two months after, King Philippe found in a gutter,...

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain’t nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

An empty bottle of Jack is almost just as beautiful as a new and unopened bottle…in the same sense as looking down at muddied feet, and looking back the way you came. The journey you’ve...

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution.

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

Explore the wonders of different shades of colours. It is purely lovely.

Punish the pushers and shovers by letting them get ahead.

Follow your star, it’s never too late, even if it doesn’t quite happen as you expect.

I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a...

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground

Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day’s work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past...

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn’t prepared to work for.

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren’t so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the...

And yet – and yet – one’s kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad...

So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence...

Awards represent achievement, and to an extent they show more about who you are as a person than the personal items you picked out and purchased, because they show desire, ambition, goals, and accomplishment.

The pursuit of dreams is supernatural endeavours.

Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.

Only making a living is not living.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.

You want to know the great thing about today, it doesn’t care about what you did or didn’t do yesterday or what you’re going to do tomorrow, it only cares about what you do right...

Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim’s Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness,...

The truest of all truths is this: You are a child of God. Out of more than six billion people on earth now, He knows your name, what you fear and what you revere. He...

I had two ambitions: One was to be in The Actors Studio, and the other was to walk into a bar where actors hung out, and everyone would know that I was a professional actor...

From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to...

Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

My ambition is as deep as your pockets. I’m an aspiring politician.

I want to be known as unknown.

It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is going to grow into a woman, not a man.

No matter how often you miss the target, keep firing the shots. Your victory is certain!

Keep on desiring. Keep on seeking.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I’m not going to worry...

If I feel that I can’t fulfill this program … then the seat is not my ultimate ambition.

*Employee* is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream.

In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.