Quotes About Ambition

If I only did theatre I would have had to waitress, and I didn't want to waitress.

For seven years after college, I was a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, and from there I got a job at Merrill Lynch as an account executive, from where I went to vice president of investments for Prudential-Bache Securities. I started my own firm in 1987.

My goal is to live out my dreams, to have a long NBA career, win championships and provide for them. My mom works two jobs. She does security and event staffing. My sister is a waitress. Anytime I'm down or don't want to work out, I remember our situation and what I've got to keep doing.

Everybody in this league waits on an opportunity when you don't play the starter minutes, when you don't play the type of minutes you want. And with each given opportunity, you got to be ready to come out and perform.

I've just always felt that I've been slept on, so I'm just trying to wake people up.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that's never been me.

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

Maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you'll wake up one day and realise you're living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.

I always wanted to find something that I could wake up and not hate doing. Hating your job was probably my nightmare scenario.

I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I just want to get paid to lay down, wake up when I want to wake up, go to sleep when I want to go to sleep, and my money just be there. I just want to make the most doing the least.

I wake up in the morning thinking about victory, I go to sleep thinking about victory, so sometimes it might be hard. But I need to control myself more and, how can I say it politely? Just shut up instead of speaking on the radio.

Not everybody gets to wake up and do what they love.

Every morning, when I wake up in camp, I remember what I want. I want to be champion of the world again.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

Since I was a kid, I'd wake up every morning hearing a voice say, 'You're the greatest rapper ever.' I'm trying to prove that voice right.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.

If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.

MMA, cricket, or anything, you cannot just coast. Every day, you have to wake up hungry.

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.