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Quotes About Ambition

You can't encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.
~ Earl Scruggs
A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? It figures! In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live.
~ Bradford Angier
My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.
~ Breckin Meyer
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
~ Bernard Baruch
I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
~ Kate Moss
It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift.
~ Brene Brown
You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.
~ Grete Waitz
I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.
~ Picabo Street
Surpassing my achievements feels incredible; I want to replicate that again and again.
~ Katherine Reutter
There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
~ Truman Capote
I'm an actor for hire. It's important not to forget that you're disposable....When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs you want.
~ Scarlett Johansson
You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing.
~ Thierry Henry
Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually,' just do it and correct course along the way.
~ Blake Mycoskie
I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.
~ Bill Shoemaker
The only thing I care about is winning. That's all. If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.
~ Jerry West
The network marketing industry offers many unique benefits to those who want more out of life.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I don't ever want something that I didn't do because I was afraid of it or I didn't think I'd be good at it - within reason. Obviously I'm never going to be able to play the trumpet.
~ Chris Cornell
I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.
~ David Ortiz
I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.
~ Eli Wallach
When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her.
~ Sarah Silverman
I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.
~ Ray Bradbury
Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.
~ Sara Blakely
Rap and dance is pretty much what I want to be known for.
~ James Corden
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.
~ Vin Diesel