Quotes About Ambition

It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.

It was impossible for Hillary Clinton to have chosen a path to the White House that bypassed the loathing, jeering derision and gendered stereotyping built on two centuries of male power. What was interesting was how hard she tried to do just that.

I think, as a lot of kids, I had a dream to play Major League Baseball, but I think I was pretty good about enjoying the moment, enjoying my high school years, enjoying my time in college and not looking too far ahead, and just appreciating where I was at the time.

But the thing about 'Narcos' is that in the end, evil does not prevail. In the end, ambition destroys everything that you worked to build and it's not just in the show but in history.

I went a long way to play for Manchester United, so nothing will prevent me from achieving my dream.

I went a long way to play in Manchester United, so nothing will prevent me from achieving my dream.

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

It's not that I don't like starring as the hero, it's more of a mental block that prevents me from doing so.

I base my game on work-rate and determination, that's what has helped me work up the leagues in previous years.

My goal is always to improve what has been done the previous season and also collectively seek to do better than the year past.

I'm just trying to up my films - how every film should be better than the previous one. That's what I struggle for.

I want to try out La Liga once more, as I didn't get to play much the previous time.

My competition is always with my previous song. Each time I start working on a new track, I try to make it better than my last one.

My goal is that my films should at least match up to my previous films if not be more.

I get very competitive with myself and always look to better myself from my previous projects. I have learned that it's important to work on the craft than the project.

I don't take the pressure that your next thing has to be bigger than the previous one.

I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Price doesn't make deals, and salary doesn't control your career.

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

I thought I would either be an epidemiologist or a 'Price Is Right' model.

I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen.