Quotes On: Ambition

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

The desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.