Quotes About Ambition

To not play in the Champions League is a disappointment, something negative.

All my life, I never gave up on music and though there was a lot of disappointment for some that the commercial thing never happened, it has never been a disappointment for me.

You have a lot of disappointments as an actor.

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

Obviously, it's my goal to be the top scorer in the Bundesliga, but it wouldn't be a disaster if I didn't achieve that.

My mother gave me the discipline to follow my dreams. You know: you can do what you want as long as you put your back into it. Just keep ploughing away.

Like lots of people who say, 'I'm going to write a novel,' it's actually more comfortable to think I could write a novel than to discover that you can't.

In order to press further with who you want to become, you have to take risks, put yourself out there... That's the only way to discover you're actually capable.

I never really excelled in any particular subject, but I was just alright at all of them. I never really knew what I wanted to do until I discovered drama.

I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

I think music has always been what I always wanted to do, but I didn't know how or when I was going to get discovered.

Yeah, you can't discredit my come-up.

I had a few passionate discussions with my own coaches, but it wasn't for more playing time or anything like that. It was because, even then, I wanted to run the team my own way.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

I became so disenfranchised, I dropped out of school and I moved to New York.

When I was 27, if I didn't put 15 things in one dish I wasn't happy.

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

I always knew what I wanted but just got a little disillusioned for a while. It was so difficult to understand what my music is.

I left Brazil at 17 years old in order to give my family a better life, but when I returned home two years later, I was completely disillusioned with football.

Those who say they're not ambitious are being disingenuous.

Anything or anyone that limits the dream you have for yourself and for your career is just to be dismissed. Do not keep that company, and do not hear those words.

I always wanted to do a Disney movie.

I went to my agent and told them, 'I want to be on another Disney show.'