Quotes About Ambition

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

When you get some success, you want more. When you get one mountain climbed, you want to climb the next one.

Nobody wants to be in a mediocre organization. You don't have the same energy flowing through.

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

I would love to go on MasterChef. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

Believe in yourself, Anything is possible no matter who you are, or where you come from. Find your path and stay on it, if you want something bad enough, nothing can stop you.

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do.

You can have, you can be, you can do whatever you want to do once you make the decision, so that would be my greatest piece of advice.

I believe that you need to be the person you are and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. If you want something, go out and get it. Follow your dreams, and never give up!

I haven't done anything yet, but I want to be the best in the world.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.

The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.

I think we have a choice every single day in how we want to live our life. You wake up and you make your choice of what you want to do with your day that's going to help you achieve your dream.

There's nothing wrong with knowing what you want and going after it.

If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.