Quotes About Ambition

Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.

I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut. I started taking those steps, and then I realized it would be the chance of a lifetime. It would be a dream life: not just a job, but the whole life.

There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps.

I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.

I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.

I realized there are so many steps from getting a deal to having a hit.

It always sounds so cheesy when I say it, but whatever it is you want to do, just go for it. I don't care what it is: find a reputable school, or if you need to go to college or get the right training, just go do it and take little steps.

My career has been two steps forward and three steps back.

Every time he steps on the floor, LeBron has to establish that he's the best. Every year is an opportunity for him to raise his level to the best of the best.

I think that's one of the most important thing for a player to have - to have goals for yourself, that you want to make steps, that you want to improve yourself, that you want to go the highest level.

All I've got to say is I'm in the top 15, I'm not taking any backwards steps.

I don't really pay attention to the long-term, I take short steps - that is what I have done through my whole career, from non-league to the Premier League.

I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.

Hamlet is the tragedy of a man who does not know how to commit a murder. Macbeth is the tragedy of a man who does. . . . Macbeth is the only one of Shakespeare's plays in which the villain and the hero are the same character.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something.

The man who conquered Ireland could be a match for the man who did not conquer Egypt.

One more thing about the backlash personality type: every single one of the bitter self-made men of my youth was a believer in the power of positive thinking. If you just had a sunny disposish and kept everlastingly at it, they thought, you were bound to succeed. The contradiction between their professed positiveness and their actual negativity about nearly everything never seemed to occur to them.

Great hopes make great men.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.