Quotes About Ambition

The goal is become the top person on 'Raw,' the example on 'Raw,' the John Cena, the ultimate workhorse of 'Raw.'

You never know, I could show up on a 'Monday Night Raw,' I could come down to 'SmackDown Live' and snatch that title real quick. Never leave me out, you never know what's creeping around the corner, if you know what I mean.

Everyone used to say I'm a rising star, and I've got raw talent, but I really wanted to be, honestly, the best.

I've thought about what I could accomplish in football, but when you read about Mike Webster and Dave Duerson and Ray Easterling, you read all these stories, and to be the type of player I want to be in football, I think I'd have to take on some risks that, as a person, I don't want to take on.

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

My dad, Billy Ray, he had a huge hit in the '90s with 'Achy Breaky Heart.' And, you know, as a kid I always said I wanted to be just like my dad. And it's crazy - just be careful what you wish for because I had the same thing he had, which was a huge hit off his first album.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

My goal was never to get re-elected.

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

There's a lot of work to be done if you're going to run for president or if you're going to run for re-election in a state as big as Florida.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Persevere with a plan to reach your passion, and life will be good.

I set goals, and I like to reach them and accomplish new things.

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

I will aim at the moon to reach the highest bounty.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

I want to be a player that does everything he can to reach his ability, and I'll do that.

I'm going to reach that No. 1 on Billboard.

You have to be able to reach for the moon. You have to be able to have those sort of goals.