Quotes About Ambition

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

I failed myself when I ruined a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be Robert Griffin III's running mate during his Heisman Trophy-winning season at Baylor.

I knew I wanted to try comedy and acting. Even if I failed, at least I would have tried. It's better than never having tried.

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

If I only worked in England for the rest of my life, I wouldn't feel like I failed.

I've failed a lot, you know, in football, and I've gone on a lot of auditions, been told no, been told I'm not right, so I know what failure feels like. It's about the work.

In my head, if I don't get a shot at Chelsea, personally, I think I will have failed.

I'm really scared of failing.

I like movies about failing.

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.

You should never be scared of failing.

I'm very hard on myself. I think that drives me because I don't want to let people down or let myself down. That fear of failing drives me from being complacent.

I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'

I don't like failing at anything.

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.

Living in Chicago, you have got to not be afraid about failing at something.

When you have your own business, you don't mind failing if it makes you better in the long run.

My biggest fear, the only fear that I have is failing. I hate to fail at anything that I do and that's really my only fear in life, to be a failure.

I used to think that my business mirrored my climbing - if I wasn't failing at something, I just wasn't trying anything hard enough.

Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.