Samantha Shannon Quotes

I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes.

I'm very competitive, I think.

You're always looking to go one step further and I'm an ambitious boy.

Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.

With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

Some people might think Rain is the superstar or super successful, but I am someone who always sets new goals and tries to accomplish them.

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

When you are starting out you're inspired by so many different things, you just want to be the best, man...and you're just so ambitious; your drive is just at a million!

It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.

I'm very ambitious but realistic.

I am an ambitious person and I like a sense of challenge.

I can't begin to try to articulate the competitive nature I possess.

I'm always looking ahead, not backwards.

In order to continue to do interesting work, you need to be...proceeding.

My dreams are who I'm racin wit but you can see I'm pacin it so that I'm always chasin it.

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

I'm not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that's what drives me.

Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits.

I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic.

My mom, my father, my little sisters, and my brother - I don't got that much family. I'm not really a family person. I just do my own thing. But I've just been spending time with my mom, especially since the [September motorcycle] accident happened. I drive all the way down there to Georgia just to check up on her. You just get tired of being that person that you thought you were. I don't feel no different. I see the music, because I made it. I don't really see the fame.

A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself

People with high self esteem are risk takers, but more importantly, they are achievers.

I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.

Whatever your walk in life is, you pick what you want to be, then go ahead and be the best one.