Quotes About Ambition

I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.

Humans are ridiculous. We're all pathetic strivers who will fall short. If you can accept that, it's optimistic because you can shoot for the moon and know you're never going to get there, and that's OK.

When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.

Growing up in the inner city, you might not see a lot of different career paths and different jobs.

The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.

For me, dropping down to League One and then getting into the Championship with Huddersfield was the right pathway. It was one where I knew I had to learn, I had to get better if I wanted to get any higher and I think that mentality's helped me.

I wanted my own rock band and stuff like that, but things didn't work out. I didn't have the patience to write my own songs and learn it and everything.

I wrote three stories on spec because I didn't have the patience to convince people I could write.

I didn't have the patience to wait to take a degree before starting work, because I wanted to run my own business.

I'm not the most patient of people.

Work harder than everyone, be patient, and just know that if you're going to do something on your own, you're gonna have to feel some pain.

It is so hard to be patient and wait for the right script to come your way.

I learned that I had to be patient and I had work hard even if the opportunities were not there. I just had to keep working to find them.

There is no rushing into things and am patient for good roles to come.

I'd love to go to the Olympics. I grew up watching it on TV, and I was always very patriotic and passionate watching that. I'd like to give that back to my country, but I know I can't just walk into the side.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Playing with my brother on the Patriots would have been amazing, but at the same time I feel like my work as a creator is more important.

I built my company a lot while playing for the Patriots.

People make a mistake when they think that if you just accumulate a set number of things on your resume, it's going to lead you to a particular place - the pattern of essentially compiling credentials to climb your way up a ladder. That may work, but that's not at all what happened to me.

I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.

People who know Paul Ryan say, 'He will be president one day.'

Paul Ryan's in for Paul Ryan.

My plan is to ride out my 30s with 'handsome man' parts, hit 40 and take some time off to have some kids, and then come back as Paul Giamatti.

I am Jim Gray, and I am the guy who is going to beat Rand Paul.