Quotes About Ambition

I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

When you think small and up the middle, good things happen.

The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't that you must be agile, or that you must be good with horses...It was that you must hide inside your costume a little of a killer's heart.

I would rather win than have good sportsmanship.

I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.

I never thought I wouldnt succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

Entrepreneurs start businesses because ... they have no choice. Passion and energy drive them on good days and sustain them on bad days

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring. But I did very well.

I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

You get what you're good enough to take.

Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.

If I'm going to be president, I will try the best I can, and I'm a very good dealmaker, believe me.

I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news.

Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.

My first goal was to get a job . And I did that. And I think I've just been fortunate to be surrounded by good people who believed in me as much as I believe in myself.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.