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Quotes About Ambition

If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.
~ Chris Christie
I am the kind of person who is happy to be doing work. When I miss a 'Brahmotsavam' or an 'Autonagar Surya', I feel bad for a day, and that's all. I don't want to name the films I have missed, but it's true that those which I missed didn't do well.
~ Rakul Preet Singh
Haven't a lot of us just missed at a lot of things and thought that we wouldn't have another chance at it? So we give up early.
~ Jennifer Holliday
Throughout my life, ever since I played for Clausenengen back home, instead of listening to the teacher at school, I was writing down all the chances I missed in a book thinking 'I should have done this.' Scoring goals was all I thought about.
~ Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Rome rankles. It will always. I missed a certain medal.
~ Milkha Singh
I always want to push on, I always want to keep going because I feel like I've missed out on things in the past, so I'm going to keep going until I can't go anymore.
~ Michail Antonio
When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
~ Sam Taylor-Johnson
If I would have chose baseball, I think I would be missing the hell out of football a lot more. For me, I wish I could do both.
~ Kyler Murray
What's missing from the world is a sense of direction.
~ Theodore Zeldin
A world championship medal on the road is something that I'm missing from my CV.
~ Lizzie Armitstead
What am I missing to be the best in the world? Honestly, nothing in terms of quality, just consistency, and that's not arrogance.
~ Memphis Depay
I loved being a film executive. But something was always missing for me. I always had the feeling that I was looking over my shoulder - what's going on on Broadway?
~ Marc Platt
Too many times I see kids come up to me, especially at the high school age, and say, 'Man, it would be cool to play in the NFL just because of the money.' And I'm like, 'Oh my goodness, you are missing everything, because money is not going to make you happy.'
~ Derek Carr
It's been great to be on television since I was young; I always knew I wanted this. I didn't even like regular school, so I don't think I'm missing out on anything.
~ Skai Jackson
A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.
~ Aileen Lee
I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
~ Narendra Modi
Once you have a mission, you can't go back to having a job.
~ Shai Agassi
The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
~ Ira Glass
It's not a personal mission to win La Liga, but I want it very badly.
~ Antoine Griezmann
God only knows we need a great role model as a leader who is more leader than they are male or female, who is more about their mission that serves everyone than about ego and personal ambition that only serves them.
~ Mark Goulston
I'm a man on a mission.
~ Kamaru Usman
My whole mission is to have a long, interesting career, not a short spiky one.
~ Tim Minchin
A mission to entertain the world is a good one because it's impossible to achieve.
~ Randy Pitchford
Never mistake activity for achievement.
~ John Wooden