Quotes About Ambition

When I left Cameroon, I was 15 years old... I had one dream - it was to conquer the world.

After I got all the love and support from my family then I knew I could go out and conquer the world, I guess.

I wanted to conquer Hollywood. But I took one shot and that's it for me.

I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.

Making it to the NBA is a big goal in my life, and one day I hope to conquer it.

I think Carmen Christopher is going to be massively huge. He's just too funny. He's got funny in his bones, and he wants to conquer every room.

I want to conquer everything that I do.

I love New York. I went to New York to become an actress, and I did it. And I won all the awards known to man. And I'm happy. And I came home. I came, I saw, I conquered. And it feels great.

Even if we had the No. 1 video on MTV, and we had money and everything else, I think we'd always have more to do. I don't ever want to wake up in the morning and say, 'What are we gonna do today?' I'm afraid of that. I don't ever want to wake up and feel like we've conquered.

Nobody gave me anything. I conquered everything. And I gave them a lot more than they gave me back.

My kids are all conscious that they have to prove themselves for who they are. I'm happy for them to do anything they want as long as it's their passion and they work hard.

I've always wanted to write, I've always wanted to direct. The conscious decision was always to not be an actor.

It wasn't a conscious decision to pick only positive roles. Things just fell into place.

Dreams have consequences.

If I wanted to be president, and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I'm a conservative.

I like to surround myself with people that have dreams and that fight for them every day.

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

At some point in your life, you'll find yourself in a similar position: Surrounded by people who are smarter, faster, who have more experience and more money - and you'll just have to find a way. And you'll have to do it with passion.

I was surrounded by a lot of people not doing what they wanted to do.

I surrounded myself with a lot of different creative people and ambitious people.

Yeah, I guess for years I wanted to be an artist, and when I was growing up, lots of my family were artists, so I was kind of surrounded by that world. Then acting came along, and I loved it immediately.

My grandmother actually was not a lawyer, but it feels like I was surrounded by lawyers.