Ambition quotes
183 ambition quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- La trovi in Insults
“He liked to be the biggest bug in the manure pile.”
- From the movie: Me and You and Everyone We Know
“Your whole life could be better. Just starting right now.”
- From the movie: Billy Madison
“You know some people have no will power, no ambition. They just drift through life like lumps of crap.”
- From the movie: Revolutionary Road
“I want to feel things. Really feel them, you know. How's that for an ambition?”
- From the movie: Ernest Scared Stupid
“I never knew when to quit. Just ask my fourth grade teacher.”
“You want my advice? Make a list of everything you want now and spend the next twenty-five years getting it, slowly, piece by piece.”
- From the movie: The Other Boleyn Girl
“When was it that people stopped thinking of ambition as a sin and started thinking of it as a virtue?”
- From the movie: Alaska
“Mr. Koontz, I don't think you understand me. Let me clear: I'm accustomed to getting what I want. I want that bear!”
- From the movie: Layer Cake
“You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like.”
- From the movie: Inception
“You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”
- From the movie: Down To Earth
- From the movie: Step Up
“I'm fighting for something that's real for the first time in my life!”
- From the movie: Street Kings
“If you're going to do something, do it now.”
- From the movie: A Life Less Ordinary
- From the movie: Internal Affairs
“What Oakes said about your fellow officers respecting and honoring you is, as you probably know, complete crap. Most of the cops hate our guts. To the extent that they credit us with having any. They think we're climbers who went into I.A.D. for the promotions, which is true, not that we necessarily get them. So, they're polite because they're...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Quiz Show
- From the movie: American Gangster
- From the movie: Talk Radio
“If you don't like the heights, don't climb mountains!”
- From the movie: 1492: Conquest of Paradise
“- Sanchez: You seem to have a special talent for making enemies.
- Columbus: Why? Do I have so many already?
- Sanchez: Don't you think to rise so high in so short of time is a dangerous occupation?” - From the movie: Dying Young
- Victor Geddes: My mother said "You don't have to like everything, but you have to try everything".
- Hilary O'Neil: My mother always said "Pass the Velveeta". - From the movie: Paradise Alley
“Do you know how many men could've been sitting on top of the world, but they let a dame tell them what to do and the only thing they ended up sitting on top of was a toilet.”
- From the movie: Roller Boogie
“Rich chicks. Gold medals. Olympics. Always want something you can't have, right?”
- From the movie: Little Fockers
- From the movie: Jack
“- George: I want to be a gynecologist.
- Miss Marquez: If that's so then I want good reasons why.
- George: You are the reason why, Miss Marquez.” - From the movie: Cats Don't Dance
“- Danny: All I want to do is the thing I love. Doesn't everyone?
- Sawyer: It's not that simple.
- Danny: It is in Kokomo.
- Sawyer: Then... maybe that's where you should have stayed.”
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