Quotes About Ambition

Hard work pays off. The harder you work, the more people will notice.

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

I never wanted football to be my highest peak.

Even when I was at the peak of my career, I was never in the race to be number one.

The 14-8,000-meter-peaks-in-six-months project was something nobody could imagine was ever possible. It's tough just to climb one 8,000-meter peak, let alone 14 in such a short period of time.

No one wants to be the person who peaked in high school!

Right now, I'm just focused on the 8,000-meter peaks. I don't know what's next. I don't think I will get tired of climbing.

I started out with acoustic guitar and loop pedal because I thought I wanted to be Ed Sheeran.

I've put myself on this pedestal from the start.

I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them, and we put them up on that pedestal.

If you are successful, then it is only human that you are sometimes a bit saturated. You might also lose that hunger which means that others who are more ambitious will knock you off your pedestal.

I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.

I know that I'm probably far more pedestrian and less talented than many who dreamed of becoming writers but couldn't see the road so easily.

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.

Too many women don't see themselves in senior leadership and so don't push themselves to advance their careers as their male peer group do.

There's nothing wrong with being respected by your peers. There's nothing wrong with trying to do your best. There's nothing wrong with success. There's not even anything wrong with trying to get a raise. There's nothing wrong with that.

I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.

When you're from a boring town, you have to find things to do. It's funny: I always knew I wanted to make music, so I was always kind of ahead of my peers. I had an MP3 player by the time I was in the fourth grade.

I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

All of my peers were becoming bajillionaires. There was no one from college left in the temp force.

I have been that actor who's watched peers and thought, 'God, they're doing well. I'll never get there.'

As I was coming up, there was so much naysaying, there was so much doubt, whether it was from my peers or people in the industry.

I get what it feels like to watch some of your peers pass you in a field that you're in.