Quotes About Ambition

I put little goals in place every day, and I think if you can kind of keep to the small things it's easier to capture the big picture at the end.

I don't like small things, I like big missions.

I'm from a small town. I think that's what's going to help me succeed.

I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.

Being from a small town, no one else was going to breathe life into my ideas other than me, so I had to go out there and do it.

I hail from a small town. My parents were never apprehensive about my decision to take up acting - they've been a constant support to me.

For myself, I'm still little Joanna from the hood - from a small town in Poland, and I'm still having my goals, my dreams.

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.

I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out. It's a familiar kind of thing, I think, for anybody in a small town.

Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.

D.C. is a small town with some big-town features.

Maybe it's because I came from a small town, but I always did well for myself.

I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.

If a person wants to make it big, they can, and they will! The place that they come from doesn't matter, whether small town or big.

Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind, but music reconnected me to my roots.

Coming from a small town in New Mexico - Lovington, New Mexico - I was very happy to go to college for free and get a scholarship to play college football.

I'm just a kid from a small town. Not many people make it from there. Shout out to Whitnall.

Coming from a small town like Jalpaiguri, whatever I have achieved today is because of my work.

I know how difficult it is to come from a small town and make a name for yourself.

I could relate to a band from a small town, talking about wanting to get out.

My dream was to be a hero in a film. I came from a small town and didn't know where to start. I dreamt that people would sing songs featuring me.

I typically, with my work, like to approach it in a bigger way. That's sort of how I am. And I remember when I was getting into television, the handcuff that gets put on you right away, especially when you're a theater kid, is, 'Be smaller, be smaller, be smaller.'

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.