Quotes About Ambition

Do you dream about being remembered for your professional successes?

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was there ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the streets and drifts across the dun-colored houses…. What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?

Reading interviews with other people, I see them say, 'All I want is for our band to be massive', but it was never an ambition of ours to be in a band that's this big. That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling. There's nothing wrong with being ambitious, but we're not.

Football is like a pyramid. It is easy to reach the top of the pyramid, but to stay there is the hardest part.

Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.

There's more to life than passing exams, and paper qualifications can only take you so far. A lot depends on luck, and on being in the right place at the right time, which was certainly true in my case.

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much 'if it happens, it happens.'

I continually took jobs I really wasn't really qualified for.

I am a qualified civil engineer but academics never attracted me as I was a sleepoholic when I was in college.

By putting this music out, I think I genuinely eliminated 80 percent of the previous jobs I was qualified for.

It wasn't easy at all for a qualified engineer to take the decision of giving it up, leave Punjab and try to make a name in films. But I really wanted to be an actor, hence I took the decision.

It is the dream of every athlete to qualify and compete in the Olympics and I am no different.

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

In any business that you pursue, if you belong at the top, and you're perceived as having that caliber, and you do qualify, then it's something that you want to hold on to.

Even after choreographing some big numbers, I didn't qualify as the top choreographer. You need to have godfathers and big people to support you for others to take you seriously.

My goal is always to qualify, maybe get a couple rounds in, but now I've beaten a couple top players.

I'm going to try to get my kid involved in golf and maybe try to get my kid to try to qualify for the PGA Tour. That's my dream.

One of the many qualities that separate self-made billionaires from the rest of us is their ability to ask the right questions.

All players rolled into one: from defensive midfielder to attacking midfielder to attacker. I want to take the qualities from everyone. I'd like to get to the level where I have everything: Vieira, Deschamps, Zidane, Ronaldinho, Henry, Ronaldo. It wouldn't be bad, that.