Quotes About Ambition

I was a real overachiever.

I was always an overachiever.

In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead.

I don't care where I fight on the card, but to get people motivated or excited, like, 'Cowboy's fighting!' that's my overall goal.

Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

Overall, I just love performing so much that when I write, I want to write for me. I kind of learned that on 'Mr. Show,' that even in an environment where you can write whatever you want - which is what that environment was - I realized, 'Man, I still want to be the guy out in front.'

I want to stay in show business; if show business will have me. Still I'd like people to know that I can do something without wearing bib overalls.

I was able to overcome my failures because I was always confident of my abilities and was sure I could achieve what I had set out for.

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with the board, that I probably couldn't overcome it, that I'd have to leave the company.

I just had different circumstances than most players, and I think that has been an advantage - maybe I carry a little chip on my shoulder with just how tough it was for my parents to overcome some of those financial situations.

I've always had this fear in me. What would life be like if I wasn't Number 1 on television? But I've learnt to overcome that fear.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

I'm a believer in challenging myself and overcoming challenges by doing things I've never done before.

When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.

I'm always going to be overlooked. That's just how it is. That's how the league is.

I didn't need to be motivated by other people overlooking me. My motivation was internal, to be better every day.

One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake.

You know, you don't need a leader to sort of administer something that's going very well. In fact, in one sense, an overly ambitious person in that circumstance can probably screw it up.

In a way, I'm overly ambitious, selfish in a way. I think because I am so active, I think that's what keeps my brain going and I can bounce things off of each other.

Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.

At 32, I kind of thought I was past the point where I was gonna get a break that really changed my life overnight.