Quotes About Ambition

I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my children. I want them to believe in their dreams and to go after them. You do that by example.

It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL. That's the one we really want.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

When I'm not working I'm a slug - a full slug. I am not good at the in-between. I'm either fever-pitched or want to just pass out on a beach with a really sleazy book and eat a cheeseburger.

When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there.

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

When I was ten, I saw 'Grease' on stage and thought: 'I want to be part of that; it looks like so much fun.' My mum enrolled me in a local theatre group, and it all went from there.

If you grow up normal, you'll always be normal-I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

I believe you've got to make the best out of this life. You don't know how long you're going to be around, so you might as well try and do all the things you want to do.

I don't care what any writer says about me ... I just want to play my game.

Sometimes, when you want to be in a place so badly, you'll do anything.

Hillary Clinton wants a better title, and I would, too, if I was already America's secretary of the status quo.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

I'm an A student. I'm addicted to feedback, and I want to please people. That's sort of how I've gotten to where I am.

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

I don't think anyone wants to grow up to be Mindy Lahiri, the same way no one wants to grow up to be Michael Scott.But that's OK.

I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.

I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving.

Ive got a lot of life left in me and I want to live it doing things I like to do.

Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.

There comes a time when everyone wants to re-evaluate their life and what they want out of it.