Quotes About Ambition

I would beg, borrow, and steal to live in N.Y.C.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

Conte is a good coach, but I would steal his place on the bench.

Put plainly, China seems determined to steal its way up the economic ladder, at our expense.

No one will steal my son's American Dream.

You don't have to cheat or steal to be successful in life, but you must be ready to convert your challenges to opportunity.

I have the speed. People said, 'Just hit the ball on the ground, slap the ball, just get on base.' But I wanted to be able to hit home runs. I wanted to be able to bunt, steal bases, play defense.

Every fight for me is personal. It's a man trying to steal a dream from me.

I've always done that since I was in second grade watching the varsity quarterback at my father's high school - trying to steal reps as much as I can.

I want to go to Santos to win. I'm not going there to finish and to 'steal' money. I'm going to play well, so people say: 'Remember Andreas at Santos?'

Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.

I actually became a producer because I saw the producers getting all the babes. They were stealing them from the guitarists.

With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!

If you were brought up in the '40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, 'Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!'

I have a drive to get more steals and improve my game and stats overall every year.

I was so competitive when I played. I was trying to get every loose ball, trying to get steals. That's what I was kind of infamous for in high school.

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.

For me, I met my husband when I was going full steam ahead of what I wanted in my career. We sort of intersected and were like, 'Oh, hi, hello!' We were both on our way somewhere to speak and then just kept going together.

I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be.

The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination.

If you don't seize that moment you sort of fall behind and get left in the smoke, so it's full steam ahead.