Quotes About Ambition

There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.

I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction', we all knew.

All I ever wanted to do was play cricket for England and be successful.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

Later on in life, I discovered that in order for me to be successful, I had to have a challenge. I can't do a nine to five job.

I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.

If I told my 16-year-old self that, at 34, I'd have no kids and not be in a movie in America, I wouldn't think I was still successful.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.

Let's just say that I've spent a lot of time being not very successful.

All I was looking for is to be successful. I had the opportunity with Australia, with what it provided for me economically.

My main goal is to become the most successful weightlifter in history.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world.

Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world.

A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet.

I don't know if I'll end my career here. Perhaps by the time I am 33, Lazio will be so successful that they need more important players than me.

I've never believed in competition. Everyone's here to do their own thing and become successful in that respect.

I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.

There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

I don't have small goals; I just have goals, and it's, one, stay healthy; and two, have a very successful career.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.

To be successful in business, you have to be ruthless.