Quotes About Ambition

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum.

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

I Came To Mumbai With Just Rs. 1,500 ... My Mother Gave Me Before She Died

When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.

I've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had that feeling. I think my mother installed it when I was a little guy.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family.

Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

I'd run over Russ Grimm's mother to win the Super Bowl, too.

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.