Quotes about Ambition

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing there waiting for them... I've told every young writer I know to do the job all the way through even if they think it's no good. Then they'll have the precedent of having finished work.

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

[On Hollywood:] There are millions to be grabbed out here, and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around.

Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately. Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else.

Lovely One, if you dare to dream, you must be brave enough to fight.

Men climb mountains, scale heights, venture into the unexplored to prove to other men it can be done.

I had found that taking risks, being true to myself, and making decisions with good intentions can exceed even my own expectations.

Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream.