Quotes About Ambition

It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo.

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

When I went to my first FA Cup final, we had to pack bags in Tesco to raise enough money for a bus to London. Now, I own a house.

Point-blank, I don't want to raise a family in baseball. Maybe I just want to be normal.

You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'

Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

Hollywood can jack you up and then help you fall, but it can also raise you up.

You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.

When you want a raise, you're not only going in saying: 'I want more money.' You're going in and saying: 'Here's what I want out of my career. Here's what I accomplished. Here's what I said I was going to do. Here's what I've done. Not only do I deserve more money, but I want to get to here on my career.'

I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.

My bar has been raised so high that it has to be something really big to get me riled up and bring out the absolute best in me.

There were a lot of assumptions that we were raised a certain way. Our dad was always really clear with us that he is rich and we are not: 'If you want to be rich, you should go do what I did, which is work really hard.'

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.

I am the kind of person who likes taking one step at a time and raising the bar with each film.

While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.

When you're raising a little kid, you tell that kid to go after their goals and their dreams. And you tell them to work as hard as anybody.

Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.

What keeps me up is always raising the bar, and what makes my team happiest and also most worrisome is I'm always asking for more.

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.

I can't imagine raising a child with a goal of that child being a baseball player or a lawyer or whatever. Odds are, they'll be something else. In this world, there are a lot of opportunities.

To compete in the Dakar Rally is a lifetime ambition for me and is something I know I have to do.

I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot.

I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed.