Quotes About Ambition

Fear of failure always drives me.

Competition is what drives me.

It does make me proud to know where I've come from and how hard I have worked, but I'm also scared of it, because I know what I've had to do, and I don't ever want to go back to that situation. It drives me more to be better.

Personally, I just want to be the best I can be, so that drives me enough.

The reality is I'm not this person with this driving 'get it done' attitude.

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

I'm not driving to be a popular president.

J.D., MBAs typically go into the financial world. What I love is driving the top line.

Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.

I'm an athlete and a professional, I like challenges and this is my driving force.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

I knew from the first time I put my hand on the barre at the age of eight that dancing was all I wanted to do and that it was what I was going to do, and nothing was going to stop me. That has always been the driving force in my life. It is who I am.

Money is not the driving force in my life.

That's what I do: I drop albums, and I just keep it moving.

People think I just dropped out of university and went, 'Mum, Dad, get me a job in television.'

I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.

I was doing B.Tech in Noida, but I dropped out in my second year.

I got to a point when I was 20 that I dropped out of university because I felt I didn't have any purpose, and I wanted to find a fire in me.

If you're at uni just because your parents have said so... There's a lot of success stories of people who have dropped out.

I dropped out twice from a law degree because I didn't have time to do everything at once.

I always drove the crappiest cars out there.

That constant need to do better and better is what drove me to start more and more companies - but it wasn't enough.

I went to L.A. to be a drummer in a band.

One of the reasons I needed to leave Dream Theater was because I didn't want to end my career as just the drummer in one band.