Quotes About Ambition

I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.

You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.

I think that I've been living on my laurels.

It really doesn't matter what you've done in the past. We just don't rest on our laurels.

I feel great when people like my work, but after a day or two, I don't keep that in my head. I go back to working and training. I don't rest on my laurels.

When I was a kid, I thought I would be an entrepreneur and maybe at some point go into law school.

I went to law school.

I was the girl who kind of went straight from high school to college. Then straight from college to law school.

My parents wanted me to go to law school!

I worked my way through law school.

My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.

From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer.

I actually don't want to be an actor for the rest of my life. I'd like to go on to be a lawyer or a doctor, and I definitely would like to get into politics.

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.

I love acting and really think that's what I want to do. It's weird seeing myself up there, but I'm used to it now. But otherwise, I have backups. Doctor, lawyer.

I was happy being a lawyer, and the thought of becoming a model or even actor never came to my mind, even though I knew I looked good.

I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing.

Coming from a family who put a lot of emphasis on academics, I always thought I was going to be a lawyer.

I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

All my life, I call myself wanting to be a lawyer because of Clair Huxtable. But the real dream was to be an actress.

None of my ambitions were serious as a girl. One week I wanted to be a lawyer, the next a binman.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer.

I didn't go to law school wanting to be a lawyer.