Quotes About Ambition

Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

We grow small trying to be great.

I'm always trying to push myself to the limit to see what I can do. It's my strong will that I've always had since I was a kid.

If my journey encourages and inspires people to never give up trying to do what they really want to do, I will be truly satisfied.

I'm just a regular guy trying to make my dream come true like everybody else.

I think, most of the time, fame is just an inconvenience that needs to be negotiated around to get done what you're actually trying to do.

I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing.

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.

I'm just trying to be the best basketball player I can be, you know, move the ball.

To me, I'll always be the skinny, 5-foot-6 eighth-grader on the YMCA court, trying to get grown men to choose me for pickup games. It wasn't always easy. And that's what drives me.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.

I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.

It's a process of trying to be great. You play this game long enough, you're going to have these bumps in the road and you have to keep fighting.

It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

I'll never read every single book or go to every single place. But I'll die in the trying of it.

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.

I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn't say aggressive, but I am always trying very hard to make sure that things will succeed.

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

I'm trying to make history.

I'm never satisfied. I don't think about what has come before because I'm trying to find something different than I did before.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.