Quotes About Ambition

There's always a chance. Somebody has got to want me, and if they don't want me, then what? I want to play. I want to do what I want to do.

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog.

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

Whenever I see that ball coming my way I am just hungry to get it. When I get the chance to take it I try to score as much as I can.

I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.

A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.

Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?

The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go !

Your destiny can only be defined by you.

If there is a one-in-a-million chance that you will "make it, " then SOMEBODY has to be that ONE. It may as well be YOU! So FIGHT, WARRIOR!

If you were given one wish, what would you wish for? To wish no more.

Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.

Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.