Quotes About Ambition

Being hurt by someone you really cared about, it makes me want to make them regret ever hurting my heart. Best way of doing that? Success. Get ready for it.

When you are in the American Idol bubble, a lot of contestants want to go as far as they can and wish to be on point with ready-to-go songs.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

There's so many people that I feel like as soon as that happens, they can really be and focus on what they want to do.

I have been the guy who has everything but yet is so one-track minded about what I want, that I can't see my blessings.

Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get.

Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

I've always known I'd be a bank robber. So judge all you want, ladies and gentlemen. Because you never did become an astronaut.

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President.

I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.

Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main reason being there was something I wanted to do far more, which was be an artist.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

The question is not whether you would like to be president or not. The question is: Do you think you can win and do you want to run? And none of those are clear to me.