Quotes About Ambition

If we'd had a Svengali manager and done what we would have been told, maybe we would have had a bigger, more hugely successful career.

Criticism is a funny thing, because I think if you want to be something, create something or make a difference in any walk of life you have to be hugely self-critical.

I wanted to be Langston Hughes.

It wasn't until I did 'Hugo' where I sort of started to think that this could be something that I do for a long time - not necessarily the rest of my life, but we'll see.

I wasn't trying to be the next Hulk Hogan. I was trying to be the next Vince McMahon.

I want to do good work. The first failure affected me. That is why I did 'Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum.'

Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.

I think it's part of human nature, that we want to achieve. It's definitely a kind of cosmopolitan nature, wanting to achieve in the fast lane.

There are some basic human needs that are the same. Everybody wants to succeed.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn't. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

Young Hollywood can absolutely feel like high school sometimes, which is hard, but it's part of life. If you get enough humans involved, there is bound to be a little drama.

I'm not cocky, I'm humble, but I think I can be really special, one of the top players in the league.

I see myself a humble man, and I tell you I have no ambitions to be president.

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

I'm a humble guy, but I'm audacious.

I came from rather humble beginnings.

We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.

I always want to just stay humble, and I always want to keep climbing.

For Euro 2016, we must remain humble, but we have the ambition to go as far as possible.

I'm a hard-working guy, I'm a humble guy, I know I have to work hard to be where I am, but I always have confidence in myself and know what I can do on the pitch.

They say that being humble leaves you out of the record books. I want to be in the record books.