Quotes about Ambition

We grow small trying to be great.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

As it turns out, I can see I'm quite a business-minded person as I've developed.

I remember the first time I saw the 'Sugarhill Gang' on Soul Train. I was 11 or 12. I was like, 'What's going on? How did those guys get on national TV?' And then, when I was a little older, a rapper from the neighborhood got a record deal. I was shocked.

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.

You can't let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.

Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.