Quotes About Ambition

Then what have you proved?" I asked. "Only that people will always try to make a better life for themselves.

I am my own version of the DREAM Act.

Eventually, somewhere - be it on the Internet or somewhere else - I will host some version of 'The Daily Show.'

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me.

We need you. The best version of you. You're here for a reason, and we can't wait to see what that is. Stay in your lane. Run that race.

I try to be the best version of me that I can be, whether it's acting or on a personal level.

I just want to be the best version of me.

I guess you could say I want to become like Martha Stewart - just a sexier version!

It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.

The version of 'Moneyball' I pitched - and we made - is about a guy, Billy Beane, who thinks he's trying to win baseball games. But it's deeper than that.

I probably looked pretty conventionally successful as a 24-year-old getting paid $125,000 a year, plus bonus, wearing suits, and living in a Manhattan apartment. But I hated my job, I didn't admire the people I was working with, and I felt that I was becoming a smaller, less imaginative, less risk-taking, less likable version of myself.

What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of passage among American actors - our version of playing Hamlet.

I learned about this talent show on TV that was basically the Estonian version of 'American Idol.' So I lied about my age, went on the show, and won. I think my story is about working really hard and dreaming really big.

It's important for people to know what they want, to know who they are, to follow their dreams and be the best versions of themselves.

Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.

I didn't have a whole lot of role models to say, 'This much is possible, versus this much.' So I finally said, 'I think I'd like to be a mayor. I'd like to pull together a city and help do good things.'

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

To me, I will be a stronger person if I'm moving forward, doing the work I want, and continue to drive: force the purpose that I want to create versus doing what other people think I should be doing, which is never a way to live.

Imagining what the possibilities are versus what is right in front of me has been the second biggest factor in defining my career.

My goal is to create one of the greatest companies that's ever existed, and that has everything to do with the people, the culture, and what our core values are versus what we build or how we're perceived out in the market.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

At a certain point, women have to decide how much they want their career versus having a family and spending time with family.

Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self-determination. It will take you very far.