Quotes About Ambition

I was striving to become an engineer, but something happened that made me think, 'Maybe I can make games instead.'

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Outwardly, I may look quiet, but deep inside, I'm full of this sense of challenge. I'm always striving to work harder, to improve by learning, to do better and keep dreaming.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.

I'm striving to be the best ever.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.

I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.

In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.

When you're a young actor, and you're really fighting to have your place in the world - for me, anyway - it took a mental focus and energy and striving. It took a long time. And it was my whole life.

I'm not striving for fame, that's for sure. I don't particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there's a balance to be made there.

I'm still hungry. I'm still striving... You have to understand: my mum has worked hard to look after her children, but we have always been poor; we have always been at rock bottom. I want to change my family history forever.

Until I am playing every game all season for a couple of seasons, I am always going to be striving for better.

I had to experience many situations and emotions to develop, and I'm still striving to become the kind of competitor I want to be.