Quotes About Ambition

Small nations have no time for small goals - they have to think big in order to become contributors.

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

We knew we had to think global and think big. Most companies that are emerging don't do that.

In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.

I am a student of good and bad, and I've always been inquisitive. I never want to be the know-it-all in a room. I want to be in the room of those that are thinkers and people that are compassionate, people that have drive and ambition. I'm always driven by it.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Once upon a time, I was really lost. I was 18 going on 19, and I was shy. All I want to do is get money, and the way I was thinking I was going to do that was a negative route.

I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

As I bent over the washboard and looked at my arms buried in soapsuds, I said to myself, 'What are you going to do when you grow old and your back gets stiff?' This set me to thinking, but with all my thinking I couldn't see how a poor washerwoman was going to better my condition.

If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

I want to do more to create more awareness so that the people in our communities aren't just thinking that you just got to be a basketball player or a rapper, because that's what I thought.

I think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking about just the work.

People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

I don't have the time to think about what someone else thinks of me because I'm busy making films.

My mental analogy for TalkTalk is an ageing Ford Cortina going flat out in the fast lane of the M4 in the pouring rain. We are always hammering along faster than anybody thinks is sensible, with things not quite working, but huge enthusiasm.

We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.

People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.

You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.

I am not the guy who will think what others are thinking about you. Instead, I am the one who will always thinks about improving my game.