Quotes About Ambition

My ambition with Al Ahli is to be an example for the local players. They must learn that professionalism is the path to success.

My mom actively did not want me to play professionally.

Already in go-karts, I said, 'OK, that's what I really want to do professionally as a career, as a job.'

When I was young in the business, I felt anything I wanted to buy personally and professionally was always too expensive.

I certainly feel as if I've been blessed professionally and personally, but I've still got moves I'd like to make.

I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.'

I can sing, but it isn't something I crave to do professionally.

I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

If I wasn't going to be able to dance professionally, I wasn't going to dance. That's my all-or nothing personality coming out.

I was in high school, and I was the guy that always got cast in the school play. Theater is huge in high school in Minnesota, and I knew that I was very good at that, and gifted, and I was 'the guy,' but it still wasn't something I ever thought of as 'a job' or something that one could do professionally.

I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid.

I didn't think it would be possible for me to do music professionally. I was afraid to speak up and say I wanted to become a musician.

Early on, when I first started acting professionally, it was really important for me to get my parents on board, because they were so against it.

I knew in my heart I wanted to do musical theater professionally. I just didn't know how to go about it or how to communicate that to my parents.

It took a while to decide I wanted to do Hamlet. It wasn't that I was daunted - I'd been acting professionally since my mid-20s and had some pretty big Shakespearean roles under my belt by that stage, at 32: Petruchio in 'The Taming of the Shrew,' Edgar in 'King Lear,' Antony, Richard III. But when it came to Hamlet, I hesitated.

As her mother, I am always there, but Alia knows what she wants both professionally and personally.

When I was about 16, I started to believe I could play professionally. I worked hard and focused more.

I started to sing professionally when I was about 13 or 14.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

Young professionals shouldn't have to let a fear of failure hold them back; they should feel emboldened to take on challenges in creative ways.

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

Deion Sanders played two sports, and Bo Jackson played two sports. I'm not athletic enough to do two sports, but I think I'm good enough to do two professions and do them pretty well at a high level.

I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.