Quotes About Ambition

Just like many great boxers before me, regardless of where they're from, they're not always starting out with the nicest stuff. You don't need the latest stuff to get where you're heading - all you need is focus and drive.

I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.

When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.

I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.

At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put all the music away and become a real comedian.' But then I realized there are amazing musical comedians out there, that musical comedy is probably something I'll always want to pursue.

I would say take any work you can get. Don't pass on something if it's a commercial. Take it. Work really does lead to other work. Especially if you're just starting out, work begets work.

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. I'm beginning to think of roles that I could do that I would not have allowed myself to think of before, saying: 'That's not for me, that's for the big guns.'

As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'

At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company.

There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point.

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.

From the third grade, I knew that I wanted to play in the NFL. It's pretty cool to see the dream about to come to fruition, but it's just a starting point.

Persistence pushes me to be bold and seek out the opportunities I've wanted. It starts by envisioning what you want, no matter how big or small, and believing that you can achieve it.

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.

Getting the job you want always starts with excelling at the one you have.

It's like the journey of a police official, who starts from a low rank and goes on to have a high rank. After doing Punjabi films, even I plan on joining Bollywood as a lead actor.

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Sometimes it's very hard for other New Orleans musicians to break out. It starts with the musician. They have to be willing to take a risk. Playing in the city, you can get comfortable. You think things are going well, but you're always in the city.

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.