Quotes About Ambition

I have states that no other Republican would do well in that I think I'm gonna win. But I don't want to name those states.

It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.

I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.

I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.

You know the sting of losing or not getting something you badly want. When that happens show what you are made of.