Quotes About Ambition

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

My aspiration was always to be a fashion editor.

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

My parents had a small piece of land to earn a living from, but my father always wanted to educate his children.

The dream of my family was for me to be an educated person.

Do your badges everyone tells me. Yeah, but badges wont get you a job. You could have the most educated coach sitting at home, you still have to be given the opportunity. And I know a lot of people arent getting those opportunities. Which is sad.

My family didn't want me to be a musician, and therefore, they never helped out in my efforts.

I'm very much of the school of thought that when you want something, and you think about it hard enough, and you put all your efforts and resources into it, that's it something that can definitely be achieved.

You may not always be as successful as you want to be, but you have to stay goal-oriented. Put in all your efforts, and you will see the results.

You cannot outperform your ego.

Thomas Leonard

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven.

I don't think it's wrong to have a big ego. Sometimes a big ego can help you also.

Like any other, this is an industry where complexes, ego and politics abound.

I have friends growing up in Egypt. I have friends in England. And they just can't believe that what I used to say, it used to be almost like a joke. I used to say I'll be in the NBA one day.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.

When he was eighteen, my dad went off to college to become an architect.

I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer in eighth grade.

I should have been a son of Einstein.

I could never be elected.

I spent almost two years trying to get my father elected president.

Having a path to elected office was never the goal for me.