Quotes About Ambition

I only got into show business because I quit football.

What's wrong with social climbing? What's wrong with trying to improve your lot in life? And if you do, what happens if your family doesn't? Is that betraying your roots? Are you being dishonest? I had a really good job, and it paid really well. Am I supposed to quit it out of loyalty to my parents?

I have no plans to quit south films and come to Bollywood.

My frustration is I quit Arsenal too soon. I left a club I loved without really showing how good I was.

You should never quit your day job.

I'm the type of person that doesn't quit. I just keep going and give my best effort because I don't want to look back on my life when I'm, like, 80 or 90 and say, 'Man, I wish I would have done this, I wish I would have done that.' I basically go out and do it.

Some people thought I was crazy when I quit Europe to go to the U.S., but for me the quality of life and the place I live is important.

I quit my job when I was earning Rs 1.5 lakh per month, when my position was at a peak, I had a H1-B and could have gone offshore and lived comfortably. But I knew I would achieve something if I followed my heart, and gave that all up.

I have been a fearless man. I have been a ridiculous man. I finished my engineering and got a job. And then one day, I just quit it. I didn't know what I would do, but I didn't want to be an engineer anymore.

I am not going to quit politics until I fulfill the promise made to Balasaheb of making a Shiv Sainik the chief minister of Maharashtra. I will do it.

A couple of weeks before I started auditioning for 'Sex Education,' I was very convinced I was going to quit acting.

I quit my job in New India Insurance and was confronted by various options. I could either go to Pune to do a course in acting from Poona University or shift base to Bombay or Delhi and study at NSD. I opted for the latter because it is the best place to get a formal education in acting.

I will never quit TV because TV has made me what I am today.

If I were afraid, I'd quit Formula One immediately, I've earned enough.

My agent advised me to quit the business. He told me that if I continued acting I was facing a few bad years and probably wouldn't work very much.

Even as a child I knew I wanted to be a singer, and in 1976, at the age of 20, I quit my job at Vauxhall Motors in Luton and became a musician.

I quit music and decided I was going to work a 9-to-5 job in advertising... which in New York City is more like, 8-to-7.

I wanted to quit school, and get an agent. My parents wouldn't let me. They wanted me to have an another option, to get a degree under my belt.

When I was trying to balance my corporate career and theatre, my dad asked me to quit my job and concentrate on my acting career. But I was hesitant because I was equally passionate about both.

If I want to be a basketball player and you don't draft me, what am I going to do, quit, or keep going? Knock on the next door, knock on the next door, if one of those open I'm going to go in and display my talent.

Everyone knows my parents were crazy enough to let me quit high school so I could sing.

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

I didn't have the opportunity to finish college and I was quite sad about that.