Quotes About Ambition

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are.

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

It's not necessarily that satisfying getting monetary success, but sometimes it keeps the door open to make what you want to make.

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.

My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.

In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.

I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.

I'd like to be a 5-10, 205-pound running back. I think it's natural for big guys to want to be a little faster.

Masculine people, by their nature, tend to want to make everything into a journey with a goal.

I'm going to create my own opportunities. If I can't find the roles I want, I'll just make them.

Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.

You want to live the dream? You do what you want on your terms.

Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream as long as you are realistic with it.

As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.

I'm satisfied with a little while you haters want it all. You waitin' for the spring and I'm gettin' it in the fall.