Quotes About Ambition

Success is something that other people always point out. I don't think one ever thinks of oneself as successful, because if you do, you're going to immediately lose whatever it is that's driving you, aren't you?

If success is measured in maximising your potential and giving 100 per cent to what you do, enjoying it and making a good living then I'm very happy with what I've achieved. If other people wanted more than that from me, what could I do?

There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

I think I am going to be part of a success story at Lazio.

I have spent some time talking to Rex Tillerson. He's an amazing human being. He's an American success story, not just in his business life. He's a rags-to-riches success story. He stated working at 8, lived in a one-bedroom house until the time he went to college, and grew to become the CEO of one of the world's largest companies.

I think it's important to celebrate your successes. It's important to feel happy about them, but it's equally important to look forward to the next big move.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

There's so many more failures than successes for actors. It's like a phobia, fear of cancellation.

We go out, we explore, we take risk. And our successes have to pay for all that.

I've had a lot of successes as a songwriter, and I really have nothing to prove in that arena, so I'm just excited about the next challenge of pursuing this artist thing.

I suppose if you make enough money with one album, you can relax the rest of your life. I would rather go for smaller and stronger successes.

For me, the biggest successes I've ever had were the ones I never counted on. I never thought my first big record would be a hit. I thought it was an average song.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be.

I'm a good-hearted person and my biggest goal is to be successful. That's really the biggest part about me.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

I'm not doing what I do to prove what a woman is capable of. I'm not doing what I do to make Formula E more diverse. I'm doing what I do to be successful. If that's inspirational, then great.

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.

When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.

You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You can't give up. I wouldn't give up. I didn't give up - or doubt myself - in becoming a successful musician with a successful band.

I don't want it to be something that becomes a cage, where to be a successful Black girl, you have to be Amanda Gorman and go to Harvard. I want someone to eventually disrupt the model I have established.