Danny Gokey Quotes

I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.

I'm a big girl. I prioritize. I want to be acting, I want to be singing, but there will be time for that.

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

For me, if I knew that I wanted to be a CEO and I set that final destination right up front, that helped me develop a career track.

Your ambitions - don't limit them. Where do you want to go, and what would be required of you to grow into that? Put yourself together a plan, and develop the skills to get there.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

I was 20 years old and I said, 'Okay, if I can't get on TV by 25 then I'll consider another career.' You have to give yourself these arbitrary deadlines just to keep yourself focused and on track.

As you build your career, you know where you want to go. I'm definitely moving towards films. That's definitely a goal. I'm definitely going to put it out there.

After my first year, I knew exactly what I wanted to do, what I wanted to get better at, and how I was going to do it.

Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.

I watched the Oscars, but there wasn't a side of me that was like "Oh, one day..." It was mostly "This is what I want to do, and how do I do it?" As soon as I decided that I was going to be an actor, for about five years after that, I just decided to not do much acting. It was like "Okay, this is what you're going to be later on."

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

Dreaming big is always a good way to go about things.

I gave myself a year to be a supermodel. And I said, 'If it doesn't happen, I'm going back to school.'

Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.

You just take any job you can that will allow your dream to come true.

I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

I'm a very ambitious girl. I'll go wherever there is a good part.

I am still full of ambition.

You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.