Quotes About Ambition

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn't realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.

I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.

I wouldn't have run for office if I wasn't an optimistic person. I'm a realistic optimistic person, though.

When I was young, you get into the point where you want to throw everything hard. And it looks good, it feels good... You get to the point, though, where it's not realistic.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

I'm competitive, but that doesn't stop me from being realistic.

You would want to play in every game if possible, but I am realistic.

The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.

I would like to become champion, but I'm realistic about it.

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

I never thought I'd be on T.V. For me as a kid in Liverpool, it was a more realistic option to be a singer.

I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.

I've never been very practical or realistic - I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it?

I think, at some point, I might have said it must be great to be as big as Elvis, but that wasn't a realistic dream.

I'm pretty realistic. I cannot wish to be Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova because they won, like, a hundred Grand Slams.

Me playing for the Knicks is not realistic.

Marseille would be the only place that I'd like to play in France, but I think it's not realistic.

I think it's always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.

I'm a realistic person, but I'm also a person who believes a lot in goals.

I'm very ambitious but realistic.

As a driver, you always want to win every race, but as a car owner you know that isn't very realistic.

Nobody thought that I could become a professional. I was not that good. It was really just one thing I had fun doing. But it was never realistic for me to become a professional until I became 17 or maybe 18.