Quotes About Ambition

2017 was crazy when I made the 'Freshman' cover 'cause I looked up to it, and I really wanted to be in it. It was motivation for me after that: I kept on going, and I grinded.

But that was our thing from day one: to make Paper Route Empire strong. That's why I never wanted to sign to no label.

I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.

There are lots of people way more talented than me - but I work more, and I wanted it more. I never waited on anyone else.

I thought that I wanted to be a cheerleader because I was one in middle school.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

When I was at Watford I was very greedy. I just wanted to show off my skills.

When I returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, my father was running a forging business with a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore. But I had no patience and wanted to grow the business via exports.

I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, but it was just not happening.

From 15 or 16, I always wanted to be an Olympic champion, but I don't think you ever believe it until it actually happens.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

You have to know your identity. It's the biggest thing in wanting to pursue creative dreams.

My dream was bigger than anything else. My fight and me wanting to fulfill what I wanted to be in life. That was enough to keep me strong enough to endure anything.

Once you mature you start wanting different things out of life and wanting different things for yourself.

Any race I go into, I've always got the attitude of throwing myself into and wanting nothing but No. 1.

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'

I don't think I've ever made something that I'm totally satisfied with. That feeling of doubt, or wanting to do more, is my engine to move forward and make the next iteration.

As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.

I think there's something about wanting to stand in the spotlight. I think the ball is a spotlight, for example, and I think they want to stand in that. I a lot of times see - LeBron is a guy that vacillates between wanting to do that and then wanting to get somebody else involved.

I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.

I come from a strong religious background, and I had a very conservative upbringing. So I was nervous, and confused. Here I was wanting to be Whitney Houston, so why did I have to dress in lingerie to do that? I didn't get it.

I'm not one of those little kids that grow up wanting to be an actor.