Quotes About Ambition

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

Initially, I resisted going into acting. You want to have your own identity, and I thought about doing other things, but that didn't last very long.

I knew I wanted to be an actor but didn't know how to go about it. That's why my ambition, initially, was not to play a lead role in a Bollywood film.

Initially it was a journey about one girl who wanted to go to the Paralympics but over the two years it has become something I was doing for everyone else. The reason I wanted to do it so badly was so I could stand here and show it can be done even if you have setbacks.

I never had any initiative or drive to be a success in business.

I always hoped I would be injured so I didn't have to dance any more.

My dad did not want me to take up sport initially, he was worried that I would get injured.

I've achieved everything I've wanted to achieve, so I'm not scared of failure. I never gave up, however bad the injuries got.

I always felt capable of playing at the highest level. The biggest disappointment is that I've had a lot of injuries.

If you told me as a ten-year-old kid, loving tennis as I did, that I'd be plagued by injuries and have to finish early I'd still have chosen this life.

I spent three seasons at Benfica looking to be in the first eleven. Sometimes I got in and sometimes I didn't. Sometimes injuries denied me. Sometimes the strikers who were in my position, they were scoring and scoring so it was difficult to play.

You're one step away, you're one injury away, a couple of training sessions away from getting that No. 1 shirt, so there are how many ways you must look at it.

But I would like to play for sure until I'm 35, if I'm injury free.

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

We remain a country where a young person's chance of fulfilling their potential rests on the vagaries of where they were born and what their parents do, rather than their innate talent and ambition.

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

There's an inner desire, something inside of me, that's always wanted to be great and leave a mark.

In any inner city, there's not a lot of opportunities, and you really have to dig out and chase what you want to do, 'cos it's not handed to you, so.

I do believe that making a factory for innovation, a moon-shot factory, is possible.

In 2001, I did some research and identified four characteristics that successful companies share. One, they aspire to be leaders in their businesses. Two, they have global potential. Three, they are innovative. Four, they display a ruthless focus on financial returns.

My name is out there right now. I'm creative and innovative. I should capitalize on it.

Our young people are some of the best and most talented in the world - they are driven, entrepreneurial, and innovative - and with the help of people who have already made it in the world of work, they can go on to be the bosses and employers of the future.

All innovators face challenges and seldom enjoy family support.

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.