Career Ambition Quotes

#1. I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

Brendan Gleeson

#2. According to a British poll, you've only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains why you don't run into that many cowboys, princesses, or space rangers.

Jay Leno

#3. When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what's ahead of you, and there's an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void.

Tracey Emin

#4. Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

Annette Funicello

#5. My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

Audrey Hepburn

#6. I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all!

Nan Little

#7. I guess I don't have the cut-throat ambition that some other actresses have. I don't know how good that is for my career, but I know how good that is for me as a person. And to me, that's much more important.

Summer Phoenix

#8. I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition or thought of what I should be doing or had any idea of what I'd like to do. Never. And still don't. And if something comes along, I say 'Fine.'

Joanna Lumley

#9. When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.

Michael Douglas

#10. The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'

Fernando Torres

#11. I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.

Jimmy Cliff

#12. It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

Kevin Spacey

#13. I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.

Heather Bresch

#14. I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.

David Friedman

#15. Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#16. There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Dave Grohl

#17. My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Hilary Mantel

#18. Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it.

Suzy Kassem

#19. Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

J.G. Ballard

#20. I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

Val Kilmer

#21. My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

Mason Cooley

#22. I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .

Chris Corrigan

#23. It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Richard Koch

#24. Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Jay Samit

#25. I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Carl Sandburg

#26. Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition?

Robert Gottlieb

#27. When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Virginia Postrel

#28. Perhaps it was all just another game that I can't win, I thought. Heartbreak, a meaningful career, a dead-end ambition. I can't win. I think it was at that moment that I was released.

M.K. Williams

#29. One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

Samuel Dash

#30. Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.

Arianna Huffington

#31. I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist ... ..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.

Jean Dubuffet

#32. I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it's still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever.

Lana Del Rey

#33. The time for careers and passions was gone. Hunger pangs displaced ambition.

Panashe Chigumadzi

#34. The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

David Herbert Donald

#35. Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

Pat Riley

#36. This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money.

P.G. Wodehouse