Quotes About Ambition

Some people will dream big dreams while others will wake up and do them.

Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think i could ever do that.

Do the things that you always wanted to, without me there to hold you back, don't think just do, more than anything I want to see you go, take a glorious bite out of the whole world

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.

He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.

I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

My ambition was to live like music.