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Quotes About Ambition

I don't care where we're going; I'm gonna wear a suit all day, every day.
~ Ray Lewis
If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
~ Victoria Beckham
I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.
~ Diplo
If you can't make an effort in what you're even wearing, you're probably not going to make the effort to create a multi-million dollar company.
~ Tan France
I didn't have accessories when I started my career. Did you see me wearing bling-bling when I did 'Hola at Your Boi?' No! I hustled to get money to buy them, and there is no crime if I show it or flaunt it to my fans because they gave me money to buy them.
~ WizKid
There weren't many options growing up, so I would wear whatever possible. I once saw a little boy wearing Jordan sneakers in a movie... and that made me dream.
~ Neymar
I just want to play ball - and I want to do it wearing a silver-and-black jersey.
~ Derek Carr
I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.
~ Elle Macpherson
When I dress up for events, I prefer Marc Jacobs and Dior. But I dream about wearing Chanel one day.
~ Lucy Hale
I'm not looking to be the King of Comedy, or the King of Hollywood. I just want to be able to keep making stuff that I'm into and have the opportunity to challenge myself with, wearing different hats.
~ Mike White
I do have ambition - I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine, but it's not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and travelling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise my acting is going to be false.
~ Caterina Murino
In the Hillary Clinton model, the wife chooses to support the straying husband while wearing a distressed and presumably pained expression in public. She stays in the marriage as a way to serve both her personal ambition as well as their shared ambition to achieve ever-greater positions of power and influence.
~ Monica Crowley
One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.
~ Johan Cruyff
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
~ Erich Fromm
I think I'm slightly OCD. I'll be desperate to get a part, but as soon as I do, the sense of pride wears off almost immediately, and fear of not doing a good job sets in. I'll think, 'This is a dream come true,' and then, 'It's not OK until I get a good review.'
~ Will Poulter
I love 'The Devil Wears Prada.'
~ Lana Condor
My father never wanted me to be a writer. He didn't - he came to terms with it maybe two years before he died. He wanted me to be a weather girl because when I was growing up, there were very few Latinas on television, and in the early '70s when you first started seeing Latinas on TV, they would be the weather girls.
~ Sandra Cisneros
Real Madrid? There is no agreement, but I promised my grandfather I would play there one day. Why wouldn't I want to discover new things? As I've said several times, I'd like to play in Spain and have good weather for once in my life!
~ Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
L.A. can make you feel like you've already made it. You're living off 40 dollars a week; it's nice weather. You go outside on your bike; you go to the coffee shop, and everybody is doing nothing. It doesn't leave a lot of room for ambition.
~ Tobias Jesso, Jr.
What do you think I am in Manchester for, the weather? I am here to win - only to win, always to win.
~ Roberto Mancini
Running was a part of my hardwiring, and that's what I wanted to do. So this is what I tell people who talk about wanting to follow their passion. 'It doesn't have to be running. It can be basket weaving. Be the best basket weaver in the world. Throw your heart and soul into it.'
~ Dean Karnazes
What keeps me up at night? Waking up to a scoop at another newspaper or on TV. I'm probably competitive, almost too much so. I will stay up till the Web sites at night roll over. And if they don't roll over, I'll stay up until it's done. I'll wake up at the crack of dawn, or in the middle of the night even, just to go and check and see.
~ Andrew Ross Sorkin
I've said many times that I might as well have webs between my toes.
~ Phil Knight
The myth of the peachfuzz billionaire has emerged. This new Horatio Alger typically launches his first start-up in middle school, and somewhere between the campus computer-science lab and a move to Palo Alto hacks up a Web site where users provide fun or useful content.
~ Steven Levy