Quotes About Ambition

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.

Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it.

We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.

There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

As a future goal, I just want to be one of those guys that is known.

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.

I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.

My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.

The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can.

The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition.

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

I felt for a really long time, "When I grow up I want to be an actor." And now I'm like, "Oh, this is it now. This is my life."

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.

People who want to go to power places all of the time and want to be around powerful people, they don't last long in the study.

Some people just chase the glittery stuff and they have no substance to their life whatsoever. Actually all they really want is power. But they pretend they're interested in enlightenment.

Anything that you might want to be is around somewhere. You can become it. You just have to get into the state of mind that allows that to occur.