1,853 Quotes About Ambition

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

I am responsible only to God and history.

It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.

You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.

That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition