Quotes About Ambition

I'm a frustrated artist.

When there's a lot of talk about a team that should or could be winning things, and it's not happening, it can become a little bit frustrating.

Not to play is frustrating, and I don't accept it, but I do the best I can to try to play.

Being just an actor would be quite frustrating.

It's quite frustrating taking a back seat in films.

It's so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter.

I like to be good at what I do. It's frustrating when I'm not. But if I get an idea in my head, you better not try to stop me, because that is just going to push me harder.

I truly never saw myself doing anything other than music. There was nothing else that brought me this much joy, but also this much frustration.

At times, I thought of leaving filmmaking because of the pressure and frustration 'Adhugo' had put on me.

Everybody told us we would never make it. Even friends would say to me, 'Okay this band thing is cool, but seriously, what are you really going to do?' I can't think of anyone who believed in us, and that was fuel for the fire, because the more anybody said I wouldn't do it, the more I was like, 'No, I'm going to do it.'

My fuel for my fire is to be able to provide for my family.

I love adding fuel to my fire and trying to prove I can play.

I enjoy that competition. All that does is light a fire under me, and once that happens I start to get hot whether it's verbally or physically, but it's actually good fuel.

Let all your moments of self-doubt, fear, or disappointment fuel your drive to be great.

For me, when you're going in the late rounds you just always have that chip on your shoulder. At the end of the day, every team that didn't draft me - including the team that took me 203rd - everybody passed me a few times. And, for me, that kind of fueled me over the years.

I think any time you get a boost of confidence, it fuels you to do more, and that kept happening for me.

What fuels me? I would like to be the best to ever play the game.

I don't get the credit I deserve but I continue to work hard and it fuels me.

There are things out of my control and that fuels my fire.

I chase dreams that fulfill me and not a dream that somebody else describes to me.

I think any time someone's dreams are crushed, there's the people who can fight to still try and fulfill those dreams and then there's the people who just give up.

My mother turned 40 in 1973. So in 1970 - when 'The Female Eunuch' came out and Ms. magazine was founded - my mom was 37 with two children, and she was just that little bit too old, and the circumstances of her life were set up in a certain way that for her to fulfill her ambitions and dreams, she would have had to break with the family.

I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.

I can feel this pressure of living up to the expectations of people. I hope I can fulfill it.