Quotes About Ambition

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

In the game, you've got some people who've got money, but their music is kind of off, their music is garbage. Then, you have people with good music, but they ain't got the biggest part: They ain't got the funds. But me, I'm just all the way around the board.

I will be honest, and I have no shame in saying that after 'Kai Po Che!', I did not get chances. Some people didn't understand what to give me, and some people went out of the way to not give me work.

When I say I want to become a legend, some people say it's pretentious. For me, it's a challenge. My desire, a dream. I'm not saying I'll get there, but it's what I want.

Some people are defined by what they do.

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.

You're born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead, but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position, and then there are things you can do to develop that.

I have this ridiculous chip on my shoulder, having been a dancer, that I feel like I really ought to be able to do everything myself - but there are some things I very clearly cannot.

My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.

It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.

It was really, really heartbreaking to not be named to the team in Sochi, but some things are just not meant to be. That experience changed me as a skater. I took a step back and decided that some things are not worth accepting. I wanted to be on another Olympic team. I took time to evolve myself as a person and as a skater.

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

It's easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.

Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

I wish to direct someday.

I want to better myself with every film. My goal is to be at the highest level someday, and I know I will get there, too. I have strong work ethics.

No, I'm not running for office someday.

Someday I'd love to come back and start a theater company in Boulder. That would be a dream come true.

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.