Quotes About Ambition

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.

Our target is to get into the play-offs. If not, we want automatic promotion.

I used to want to be the black dude in 'The Last Dragon.' I wanted to be Ralph Tresvant from New Edition - I thought he was super cool.

One of my goals is definitely break into film, and I want to do action movies as well.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

Life is all about finding challenges for yourself that you want to try to achieve.

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

I will be happy with myself because I always say I don't want to think back.

My father didn't want to go to Manhattan for me, and I came to Manhattan and I have done a great job in Manhattan. And then I wrote a best-seller and I wrote numerous best-sellers.

As president, I could run the Trump organization, great, great company, and I could run the company - the country. I'd do a very good job, but I don't want to do that.

I'm not a bad person. I'm just doing my thing... I'm, you know, running, I want to do something that's good. It's not an easy thing to do.

I built a tremendous company and all I want to do is make America great again.

There is inside you all of the potential to be whatever you want to be all of the energy to do whatever you want to do.

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

I can make a record like the [previous] one I put out, but I don't want to do that because I want to set the bar so high for myself. I don't want to do it like everyone else.

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.

I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'