Quotes About Ambition

We were told not to turn our hobby into our job, but to turn our job into our hobby. As kids, we were told not to pursue our dreams!

I'd been playing the piano since I was 6 and wanted to be a composer, but I also wanted to be an actor. I decided to just pursue both and see which won out.

I started dancing at the age of three in my hometown of Toledo, Ohio, and it really was my sister's dream to pursue dance professionally.

I'd love to start doing some films and really kind of pursue acting as much as possible. That's really where my main focus is.

From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.

I would certainly encourage young people to pursue their dreams. It isn't always an easy path, but it's worth going after. And I figure if a farmer's daughter from Iowa can become an astronaut, you can be just about anything you want to be.

I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.

I performed in 4Minute for seven years, and, now, it is time for us to pursue our own goals.

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

I had to decide whether I should try to play pro football after high school or try to pursue my powerlifting career.

I moved to Mumbai to pursue my degree after high school.

It is important to be clear about what you want and pursue that passionately.

Senior year in college, a kind of confluence of events came together to have me pursue a career in acting. I was planning on being a lawyer; I double majored in history and political science. I took the LSAT and did horribly on it, and that was one thing that made me rethink a new direction.

I was fortunate enough to make it to where I want to be. There could be other kids as talented or more talented than me in whatever they want to be but don't have the resources to pursue their dream. Maybe they have to get a job instead to help their mom with the bills.

Every girl deserves the right to pursue their dreams.

I was about 15 when I decided that acting was what I wanted to pursue professionally.

After my freshmen year of college, I really wanted to pursue wrestling.

I was just a kid. I had nothing to my name but I was still happy. But I was also given a chance to pursue my dreams, have an education.

I had to take a decision. Do I pursue dance, my passion, or help my mother out? The movies beckoned.

The Champions League must not be an objective but instead a dream for us to pursue.

I have done a lot of work in Bollywood over the years as an actor and director. I now want to pursue projects that will give me a global profile.

My goal was to always get my degree. Once I did that, I thought I could pursue any other passion because I had something to fall back on if I needed it.

I had always wanted to pursue music. It was always a dream, but it was always a dream in the sense of, when you're young, 'I want to be president' or 'I want to be an astronaut and fly to Mars.' That's what it was to me.

My parents have always wanted me to pursue a dignified career.