Quotes About Ambition

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

Before I was in Girls Aloud, I wanted to be a nanny. But then Girls Aloud started and that ruined that dream!

I started my life with Rs 5,000.

I started my career without fans.

I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

When I started playing as a boy, a lot of people were asking, 'If you don't make it, what are you going to do?' But in my head, I was always repeating to myself, 'I'm going to become a football player.'

I was in a show choir. I can't sing or dance to save my life, but I was very passionate. People said my parents paid the choir director to let me in. It was actually the parents who started that one!

Let's go, champ' started as a way to motivate myself.

I just started singing 'cause I had dropped out of school.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.

Everybody would like to be starter, but if I'm not, it's no big deal for me.

Every linebacker that plays in the NFL wants to be a starter.

If I'm going to be a sixth man, I'm going to go for Sixth Man of the Year. If I'm a starter, I'm definitely trying to be a great player either way.

I love when people doubt me. I love when people don't think that I'm good enough to play at a certain level, not good enough to be a starter, things like that. That's the stuff that drives me.

I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.

Nobody is guaranteed to be a starter; thinking that would be a mistake.

I said before, I want to be a starter, I want to be an all-star - not a borderline all-star.

Of all the years playing football, I have never felt like an undisputed starter - that would be an error.