Quotes About Ambition

I want to win trophies with my country, and I want to win trophies at club level.

I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.

I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

Watching people toss all caution to the wind, who are ready to put their lives on the line for a dream, is something that is accessible.

I turned 30 and decided if I was going to try acting I had better try or wind up still holding a desk job at 50.

I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.

I wanted to be like Vivien Leigh in 'Gone With the Wind.' I wanted to have black hair, green eyes and break hearts.

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort.

The flop that hit me was 'Tevar.' It felt like someone knocked the wind out of me. When you do a home production, it always hurts more. I wasn't ready to accept that 'Tevar' didn't do well.

I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.

Follow the money at all costs, and you might wind up regretting it.

If I'm going to wind up playing left, I want to be the best left fielder in the game. I'll work to be that.

I believe that anyone who chooses a path and keeps walking will find a positive result some day. I didn't want to go with the flow and do any kind of film that came my way and wind up my career swiftly.

My restlessness leaves my mind racing as I try to wind down at the end of mandatory recovery day. It keeps me tossing after poor performances. And if I played well, well... playing well makes me itch to play better; there is always room for improvement.

I made the decision that I could either go outside in the freezing cold in the wind and rain and get muddy or just stay inside and be a rock star.