Quotes About Ambition

I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.

In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

I can't wait until the record label feels like it's time for my album to come out, and then just disappear.

I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.

I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.

Marco Rubio, I think, will be president some day. Whether 2016 is his time, time will tell. He embraced immigration reform. He seems to have backed off. I'll let him explain why.

Anybody can do anything with enough time and money.

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

Yea, I've got a dream too. It involves time-travel and a rifle.

L.A. is a kind of a landing place for some people. People are just in and out all the time. People are there for a short time until they get what they need and then they go somewhere else.

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

I kept doing my own thing, working out with weights, wrestling, and doing other spots until I graduated from high school. Then I made a conscious decision to pursue MMA seriously and full time.

You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking at the top some time?

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

I think Donald Trump is a preeminent multitasker, can handle multiple things at one time, and when he's committed to doing something, nothing stops him or gets in his way.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

We know all along that time is squeezing us into a corner while we mentally rocket to each new star that flares across our sky, and yet we can't help ourselves.