Quotes About Ambition

I never became a cowboy or baseball player, and now I'm beginning to wonder if I ever really became a writer. I find that I hesitate to put that label on myself, to define myself by what I do for a living.

Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that's not my personal goal.

When I was a label head, I didn't think I was greedy. I've always run my own race.

Def Jam is the reason why I started a label.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

I want to be role model for people to be like, 'I don't need a major label to be a successful artist and to have a successful song.'

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.

I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.

When I was 17, I rewrote the songs for a musicalized version of 'Love's Labour's Lost.'

I want to keep the whole 'Lace Up' movement going. I want to take it national and international with a machine, a label.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

I had a good career, but I still feel like I should have done more. It wasn't through a lack of trying. I just couldn't stay healthy.

Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

BIG THINKERS OFTEN DO BIG THINGS. SMALL THINKERS NEVER DO BIG THINGS.

Sadie heard her inside cleaning up the kitchen and wondered what dreams Betty's mother had for herself, if all mothers had them, bottled up beneath their mother exteriors.

Tony wanted to kill me, the Senate wanted to make me their stooge, and, oh, yeah, I'd also managed to piss off the mages. What can I say? I'm an overachiever.

I want to remake the whole world; anything less is not worth the trouble.

I want to remake the world; anything less is not worth the trouble.

It feels good to know that if I died tomorrow I would have absolutely no regrets about things I wanted to do in life but did not try.

One thing I have learned from Mama is to fight for what I want

There is nothing shameful in wanting, Venetia. There's only shame in not getting.