Quotes About Ambition

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

I was 16 years old at the Supervalu Store in Chaska, Minnesota, working as a bag boy, and with one of my checks I went out and bought a $70 pillow in 1977. Who does that as a teenager?

Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.

I'm rubbish at maths but I would like to have been a pilot.

I dreamt of running my own business even as a kid, but if not a CEO, I would have probably been a pilot.

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

I'd like to have been a pilot.

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

As a child, I wanted to be an astronaut, then a fighter pilot, and then later, as I grew up, I was focused on scoring high marks so that I could do an MBA in marketing.

As probably is known, I did not want my husband to join politics. He was not keen to join politics. He was very happy as a pilot.

I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my classes for it, but I got lazy my senior year in high school and didn't get my paperwork in.

I spent one semester in Air Force ROTC, as I wanted to be a pilot.

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot!

I was 14 or 15 when I moved to L.A. permanently, but I had been out for pilot season for a few years before that.

I had five years in the business in Canada, and then I came down to the States in February of 2010. I had a good pilot season. I started getting guest star work. I started to get bigger stuff.

My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.

My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.

Between the ages of 12 and 15, I wanted to be a pilot because I thought it would be glamorous and dangerous.

I did a CNN pilot but they decided I wasn't Anthony Bourdain.

I'd love to play a commercial pilot on screen.