Quotes About Ambition

For the most part, the girls of Katwe need to be told who these people are and once they learn, they want to be just like them. For Phiona Mutesi and the other teenage girls of Katwe, there are no true female role models to follow. Nothing realistic. Nothing attainable. No solid businesswoman or stable homemaker. There is no in-between for Phiona to grab onto during a very impressionable time in her life, a time when she needs a lot of guidance about becoming an adult.

Todd was everything Tallahassee was looking for: young, handsome, ambitious and completely full of shit.

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Pipe down, Chumley! I don't know what black hole of personal ambition you climbed out of, but it's now time to skee-daddle on back, you Crisco-based life-form.

The best life is when your dreams come true. The second best is when they don't, but you never stop chasing.

Impossible' isn't in my vocabulary," said Serge.

If you don't visualize what you want to accomplish, then you won't accomplish anything.

Near the end they give you morphine. I'm looking forward to that." Serge turned another page. "You might want to bottle some of that excess ambition for the afterlife.

Hang on to your dreams with everything you got. Because the best life is when your dreams come true. The second-best is when they don't but you never stop chasing them.

But—damn it all—why does money have to be the marker of a man? That was the thing about America he most despised, measuring existence by the size of one's pile.

I don't want to join you, I want to beat you

No question, I love the path I've taken.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

There was no question of ever sending us to Jewish schools... They wanted us out there. They wanted us to be lawyers and doctors. They wanted us out of the religious thing, apart from that ethnic bonding.

There was no question that I was going to school.

No question Pacquiao is someone I would like to fight. But if it's not in front of me, then I am really not worried about it.

As soon as I learned that I was a finalist, it was no question in my mind that I was going to put myself into the competition for the Rhodes scholarship.

My philosophy was simple. I was trying to score when I got the football in my hand. There was no question about that.

There's no reason why I can't be a mogul. When I step into a room and I'm there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he's talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

Think about how many dreams die with people - if you don't believe in yourself, whatever you're doing is for no reason.

There's no reason why I should retire.

If the challenge wasn't there, there's no reason to say 'yes' to the role.

And I actually had to beg for my last tryout at NXT. Yeah, I actually had to send multiple emails to say, 'I want another tryout and there's no reason you will not hire me after this tryout.' And that was the tryout that they hired me from.