Quotes About Ambition

Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."

We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.

All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

My career is one thing in my life that I don't plan.

It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid.

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.

And I'm drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I'm sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

I've lived such a great, fantastic life already, but there's still so much more.

In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.

Everything about my life is about winning a national championship

You have only one life, make the most of it

I dont want to just be a broker all my life, I want to lead.

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.

Wishes are thoughts vibrant with life and eager for action.

I think I'd like to be inspirational to anyone who has a dream, anyone who wants to make more of their life than maybe what is set out in front of them. And you can!

I live a life that most girls only dream of.

Want to Think Big? Then get rid of the negative influences in your life. Harsh? Possibly. Healthy? Yes.

I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight.