Quotes About Ambition

I loved it. I just thought I wanted to stay in college forever. I came to New York all by myself; I didn't have any friends there. But it was fine. I felt comfortable. I started thinking, 'Maybe graduate school?' I was really cool with people who were smart, who knew stuff. It's very romantic and stimulating.

My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.

I was born dirt-poor with barely a stitch on my back, and no name or prestige attached to me, and no real clout or connections.

I would like to run about 15 stock car races a year. That would be my goal.

I know it's a stock answer, but besides acting, I'd love to produce and direct.

I was like, 'I don't get out of bed for less than $21 an hour!'... I temped at Chanel and the New York Stock Exchange, and then I'd come home and write.

I want to open a restaurant, and I want to start selling properties. I want to own some stock.

I had the offer to race Stock Cars. I refused the first time.

Everyone who has ever aspired to be a stock car driver wants to win the Daytona 500. If someone says that it's better to win somewhere else, then that tells me one thing for sure - they've never won at Daytona.

I had thought of joining my dad in his stock broking business in Delhi.

I couldn't make a living as a comic in Ireland and I was watching my friends from college getting good jobs, buying houses, and I had to really take stock and say: am I going to go for this comedy thing, or what?

I wanted the world when I was 20, and when I took stock at 40 I realised I hadn't come anywhere close to getting it.

I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

I was working as a stockbroker in New York and had the seemingly perfect life.

I moved from Stockholm to London, and I didn't want to work with my parents or have them help me in any way, I think just to prove to myself that I have my own talent.

I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.

As soon as I was given the opportunity at Stoke it was head down, this is what I want. This is where I want to be, this is my opportunity and I was fully confident about taking it.

If I were to leave Stoke, it would have to be a step up for me. Everything would have to be right.

My ambitions are to be the Stoke number one and England number one, but there are other things I want to achieve in my career as well.

I'm going to do anything in my power to keep creating the path that I want to go down and I want to be a part of and be involved with, and whether or not that means superstardom or making music for the rest of my life and not having to work at a coffee shop, I'm fine. I'm happy. I'm stoked for whatever opportunity arises.

I want to stay where I am. I'm stoked to be a country artist.