Quotes About Ambition

I know a lot of people try and set expectations for me. No offense to you guys, but I set my own expectations.

I wasn't getting a lot of game-time at Liverpool, you guys could see that. I was just playing cup games and stuff like that.

You probably don't like me but, at only 24, you guys can only dream about having what I have at 24.

We recognize that there have been acts in the past that are Asian or Korean who tried to go, 'Hey, I'm a huge star in Korea, I'm a huge star in Asia so you guys need to respect me for being a huge star there.' But I don't know. As much as we may be big, we have to be very humble and start from the ground up in the States.

Young Thug, he gave me all the jewels. He literally paid me to leave the neighborhood.

As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, 'This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.'

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

I've thought it would be cool to have a baby young. You know, be my road dog - like my dogs, they travel the world - but there's always something you have to give up for success. Everything comes at a cost. Just what are you willing to pay for it?

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it.

I remember when I was young, I was watching TV, and my father came into the room, agitated, and told me to start a business. I was eight years old.

You never know who you're talking to. Don't limit a young student's dream, because that's how we change the world.

It was a tough moment for me when I was in Senegal, especially when I was young. I was born in a village, I grew up there, and they don't like football.

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

If there is something that's your passion when you're young, do it. Let everything else take care of itself.

The main quality I have is my mentality because I never gave up - I never, ever give up. I have been like that since I was young. I knew I had to take my chance when it came. Nobody gives you anything. You have to go and take it and this was the way I think.

If you're a young black dude from the hood you want to come through the hood in a car that makes a lot of noise.

I told myself, if I sacrifice Young Dolph and never sign to a major label and I get Young Dolph hot? I'm going to earn and get all of these relationships and do a lot of networking. I'm gonna know the business, all the way, ins and outs.

For the moment, I haven't ended my career. I'm young. There are still a lot of goals.

I want to do as much as I can do while I'm young.