Quotes About Ambition

I fell in love with it after going there on holiday when I was 16: we went on one of those red bus tours, and it goes past Juilliard, and I was like, 'I want to go there'.

I was back on the road for three tours, worked harder than a Bering Sea fisherman, and I made a lot of money and thought I would buy a helicopter.

Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.

I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I've always been about progress and accomplishment. When you set your mind toward a goal, you continue to have follow-through.

Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

I just don't care what people have to say. I keep pushing toward what I want. It's just how I am. I don't know where I got it from.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

I had a dream, and that dream kind of became a reality when I started taking steps toward it. You don't even realize what you're achieving as you're achieving it.

My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.

For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.

Once I set my mind towards something, it's going to happen. By hook or by crook.

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

Stardom is a crazy thought. If that's what my path is, then that's where I'm excited to be headed towards.

Passion keeps me going. I love my work. The need to come back, no matter what, and my passion towards my work keeps me going.

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

We need to put goals in front of us and move towards them.

I always set small goals and work towards them to achieve them.

Sometimes I get really down on myself for not having the exact career I want, but it's ok as long as you know what you want and you're going towards that. Accept it's going to be a different path than you thought in the first place.

I want to keep growing, keep moving towards being one of the best in the world, and there is no better place to grow than Real Madrid.