Quotes About Ambition

People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?

I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.

You need to wake up if you want to dream.

You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.

There's nothing wrong with being a pretty girl, because you want to be, desirable. There's nothing wrong with that, but you should have a plan B even if that is getting pregnant by a rich dude.

I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress.

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it.

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.

You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.

Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.

I try to encourage people to identify the things in life that they really want to do, so that over a period of time they can design or steer their life towards those things.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.

There is no thermometer for wants!

I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine.

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didnt want to be a singer. I didnt want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.

We're extremely young and have the potential to be anything that we want to be.

When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."