Quotes About Ambition

There have to be practical steps. There's no point in holding out for a magic door because there are no magic doors. You can dream your life away or actually do what you dream of doing. That's the most valuable advice I can give.

If someone works hard, it is with an aim to become a valuable player.

I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.

There are a lot of really valuable services that are always pushing you to communicate with other people. But there are relatively few services that are about helping you be the person you want to be and fulfilling your ambitions.

I want to add to my legacy because, in the end, that's going to be the most valuable for my career.

I think the biggest part of being a girl boss in the office, at home, or anywhere you go is just knowing your value.

I don't understand why people set limits, like I will buy a house, then car, and so on. But I ask them, what after you've achieved all that? I have come to realize the value other things, like nature, or spending time with my family in Ludhiana or peace of mind.

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

I think, for me, the only real value to fame, stuff like that, is that you can then have a lot more creative power to get certain movies made and to do certain things.

The funny thing is more money doesn't necessarily get you what you think it's going to get you and the way where it does get you more value on screen.

As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.

If a person thinks that I can't add value or I'm not capable to be a part of their film, then I'm ready to work harder on myself.

I, of course, was born as if I was a movie star in my head. Even though I had nothing, in my head I was always royalty. My mother always said, 'I don't know where you came from'. I didn't have their value system. And I always lived beyond my means.

I didn't go to fancy schools or come from money or from a family that valued law or public speaking in any shape or form.

I was supposed to go to Northwestern and become a dental hygienist, get married, have babies. My father was very against me being in show business. Usually in Chinese culture, education is the most highly valued.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

America has no one to catch you when you fall. That makes you want to achieve. It is healthy for the soul. But all that is valued is success.

Small business people are people with goals and values that can't be calculated on a profit and loss statement.

I know what I want and know my values, and therefore, it's easy to take hard choices when you know what the ambitions are and what values you stand for, so it's all about staying true to yourself, be yourself.

At one point Jonathan said, "You have said you didn't want to be singing 'Satisfaction' when you were forty-two." "No. I certainly won't.

But hope always kindles through striving.

Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.