Quotes About Ambition

With everything great comes a price, always, right?

The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

I think there's a certain pride people have in competition.

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your pride to really go after what you want.

In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.

I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of pride. I think I do get that from my family. But you can be driven and be nice.

In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.

I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.

I have some pride in the things I've done, but I'm pretty hard on myself. Part of looking at my old work is to motivate me to try harder.

I remember, after 'Tumbleweeds,' my friend and I wrote 'Pride and Glory.' I was just about to get it going. I had some really great actors attached, and New Line was going to make the movie, and 9/11 happened. And it was over. By September 12, it was over. And rightfully so. I understood that.

When I won gold in Athens, I said to my wife Cath, who was pregnant, 'This baby of ours will never want for anything.' There was real pride in that - but it just didn't happen.

I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.

When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories.

I took the same pride in my dishwashing job as a child as I take in running my company today.

I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I could be one of the actresses. When I saw 'Pride And Prejudice,' the one with Colin Firth, I just absolutely knew that was what I wanted to do, and for 'Cranford' to be my first job was poetic, really.

I wanted to be all sorts of things. I went through phases. I wanted to be a doctor, I wanted to be a lawyer. For a little while I wanted to be a priest, which my dad wasn't very happy about.

But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows?

I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

The dream was to be a prima ballerina.

I guess I could've been a prima ballerina. Or a nurse. Aretha Nightingale!

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.