Quotes About Ambition

I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.

I was 20 years old and I said, 'Okay, if I can't get on TV by 25 then I'll consider another career.' You have to give yourself these arbitrary deadlines just to keep yourself focused and on track.

Right after college, I was trying to figure out what to do. Teach? Act? Model? Do PR for the deaf community? And now I'm doing all I dreamed of and more.

Dealing with business and trying to create never mixes for me.

A lot of YouTubers get that mainstream celebrity, they get these big deals, maybe a book deal or a TV deal or whatever it is they aspired to do, and they kind of abandon ship on what got them to that point.

Let it be understood that I am interested in making multimillion-dollar business deals.

It's impossible to get to a billion dollars by endorsement deals. The biggest deals only take you so far. It's how you make money when you're asleep that's going to get you there.

I think that Dean Ambrose is driven to create a first-time-ever, unique character that other people in the future can be compared to.

You hear a song like 'Wait For It,' you hear a song like 'Dear Theodosia' - if you get one of those songs in a musical - one - it's worth dropping everything to sing that one song.

The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.

When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

I put myself in debt to get to the NBA.

I realized after my first play that no one was going to offer me roles for theatre. So I started my own theatre company even though I was in deep debt in 1988.

From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

It would be fun to be eighty-five and have a Broadway debut. That's the goal I'm shooting for. When they revive 'Driving Miss Daisy' for the seven-hundredth time.

I achieved my one and only dream, which was to debut as a singer.

When I was setting out as a kid, five, six, seven years old, England was a dream. One of my best days as a player was my England debut - but it didn't quite happen after that!

It is every boy's dream to make his debut for Liverpool.

As a kid, I always dreamed of making my senior debut.

My debut season was a good one for me, especially at 16, but I said that I want to improve.

When I was barely 21, I was making my Pride debut. That was at the beginning of my career.

I went to New York for a while before I moved to L.A., and I was very clear that I didn't want to do TV. For a decade, basically, I didn't even entertain the idea.

If you'd asked me when I was 18 if I'd be happy being in the top 100 male players for 10 years, I'd have taken that like a shot. As it turned out I was top five for a decade.