Dream in a pragmatic way.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

I am results-oriented.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

I came to New York to be a fine artist – that was my ambition.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Some day I shall be President.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.