Quotes About Ambition

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I had jobs from the age of 14, when I arrived in London as a refugee. Aged 17, I'd get up at 4 A.M. to work as a cleaner before school. It wasn't pleasant.

I refuse to be outworked, and I consider myself to have the heart of a lion.

Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

I will only take up acting if the offer is too good to refuse.

I refuse to take no for an answer on anything.

When I knew I had the chance to play for Liverpool I couldn't refuse it.

I have direction, but I was very particular about the things that I wanted to do, and I refused to get just like, a regular job.

Ranbir was my first choice for 'Ek Deewana Tha.' I tried to get in touch in with. Forget about meeting Ranbir. I couldn't even meet his secretary. Yes, even the secretary refused to meet me.

Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I refused.

More Than' challenges every norm, refuses to accept the rules as they are, one-size-fits-all, and most importantly, 'More Than' implores you to take massive risk.

I don't know what it is in me that refuses to quit, but I think it's kind of like, dare to dream.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

My hopes and aspirations haven't changed since I started in this business. They've been to be able to play drama, to be able to play comedy, to be able to play leading men, and to be able to play character roles. I have no other aspirations in this regard.

I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.

There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted to do since childhood, so in that regard, I feel incredibly fortunate.

A subset of CEOs is that of entrepreneurs. And the classical definition of an entrepreneur is an individual who pursues opportunity without regard to the resources currently controlled. That sounds like a very different person than one might expect an analytical investment manager to be.

It's difficult for anyone to regard a place in the England starting line-up as their own. There's always someone looking to get ahead of you, and that's how it should be.

You want to play, you don't want to be on the bench, I'm no different to anyone else in that regard.

I don't regard myself as big time.