Quotes About Ambition

People were fighting to try to train me. They saw a pot of gold, and they wanted to fight for it. But they seem too hungry. So I said if my father ain't training me, I ain't going to fight.

I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.

My dad said, 'If you want to go out with girls and go out with your friends, get a job.' I found one at the local country club as a pot washer in the kitchen.

My grandfather used to be a chef and I remember going to his restaurant to peel potatoes and clean his floor. He used to go out and kiss all the girls in the restaurant and I thought 'oh this is good... one day I want to be like him.'

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.

I knew I had the potential. I would say, have self belief and dedication and leave the rest to destiny!

I've chosen opportunities where I might fail rather than live in the shadow of my own potential.

There was a time when I felt that I was not getting work as per my potential.

I want to maximize my potential. And when I talk about that, don't get me wrong - I'm not talking about just making money.

I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.

Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesn't? But famous-famous? I just don't care about it. And if you genuinely don't give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.

I think the world sort of looks to the kids who have potential. These are the kids who are going to do something with their lives, who are going to do something for the world. I don't think it's malicious, but the other kids get lost from that point on.

There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

I can play many roles, a guy who takes on a challenge on very short notice with potentially damaging results, if I make the wrong move... I shoot for the stars. If I get the moon, I'm OK with that.

There's almost a total correlation between the amount of risk you're willing to take and then the amount of stuff you then potentially can get done.

I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

While I felt like we potentially had something really huge in 'Gotham,' you're always nervous that it won't live up.

After I made my first short film that wasn't terrible, people were interested in potentially developing a feature with me. Every time I read a script, it was a bizarre, too-dark, genre-less thing that no one wanted to make.

I want my hands in all the pots and not just one. I want to make the right moves that'll put me in the right place.

I believe when you have your hands on four or five pots at once, you can never have a firm grip on one pot. My one pot is being a boxer.

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.