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.

I just aspire to pick people up. That’s my ambition.

Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the...

Spending time with people without ambition is a self-destruction.

Talented people hit targets no one else can hit. Ambitious people aim to hit targets no one else can see.

He’d been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants […], which he’d accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.

Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.

To ask, ‘How do you do it?’ is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a ‘how’ if there is a big enough ‘why’.

THE EMPRESS LO was not beautiful but she was ambitious and, sometimes, ambition can take you further than beauty. The women of the court never wondered how she got this far because as all women...

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

Shareholders lose when companies choose to settle investigations motivated by political ambition, fueled by threats and settled out of fear.

May you find what you are searching for in the right places

The will to dare, the power to act.

Set Goals, not Limits.

Be honest with yourself; set the alarm for the time the Real You will get up, not the Ambitious You, because the Ambitious You doesn’t really exist.

My goals may seem impossibly far-fetched when really they’re not. Break them down into steps and see how I accomplish great things. I can easily reach from A to B. I can manage from B...

As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that your hearts and your bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for...

Don’t let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for...

The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say ‘Thou...