Quotes About Ambition

I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.

Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in print. The press is so accustomed to politicians wanting those things, it's a surprise when somebody's like, 'Whatever, I'm not really worried about those things.'

Most people who are hating on you, they are not worried about where you are. They're worried about where you're going.

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

When I was growing up, I worried that people would dismiss me as a boring swot because I always had my nose in a vocabulary book - usually in French or German.

Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he... in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn't sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner.

Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.

I get worried sometimes that people are saying 'Why is she on television - is it because of Survivor?' That people are saying, 'She got here the easy way.' But I have been working hard all these years, and I figured I needed to move forward and embrace it, respect it and perfect it. If I didn't, then everybody would lose.

At one of my old schools, I didn't tell anyone I was doing my first album because I was worried they'd be like, 'Who does she think she is?' So I just let them find out for themselves.

Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that's what I really chased.

I'm not really too worried about what I'm gonna do next, because I just think of my career as, like, having sixty years ahead of me.

My whole life, I've never worried about being No. 1, because that's the guy they've got to get out of there.

As much as my parents were worried about me moving to London at 17, they could see that I was hungry to find my path. And it probably helped that they saw me succeeding at it, slowly but surely.

I never worried about topping myself.

I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.

I started my own business because my parents had no dowry for me, and I was worried. I ran it from their Martha Vineyard's summer house. I baby-sat for a 14-year-old boy all summer and was giving him time-outs, even though I was two years younger than him.

All through high school and college, my parents would ask me over and over again, 'What are you going to do with your life? What do you want to be?' Well, in my heart I wanted to be a singer like Bing, but I worried about the reality of that dream. Did I think for one minute that I had the voice to pull it off? Of course not.

Competition is normal at a big club, but I've never been worried about it.

People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.

I worried so long that I would sing to empty bars my whole life. I was singing my guts out; there would be five people into it.

Cricketers are worried about their milestones, worried that they should score 5000-10,000 Test runs, but I am not fussy.