Quotes About Ambition

I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.

When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.

You see it from my area, from any area, really, so many who want to be great and have the drive, but don't have the resources. I'm very blessed that I have a family that was financially stable enough to get me to tournaments and camps and to practices so I could wrestle year-round.

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.'

I yearn to make a really good, intelligent movie before I die: I don't completely rule out the possibility, but in Hollywood, I'm not bankable.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it.

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.

Most people share a yearning to be something bigger than them. Something they can be excited about and something that will challenge them to go beyond being average.

I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.