Unstoppable Ambition Quotes

It doesn't matter who other people are saying the favourite is; I'm still going in to win the gold medal.

When I was young, I was a kid that never stopped. I wanted to do everything; a lot of energy. I didn't have this big hair. But I was a happy person.

My entire life, people have told me that I couldn't do certain things. They told me I couldn't go to college. They told me I couldn't go to Yale, Georgetown, couldn't end up doing much on Capitol Hill. Couldn't be party chair. And my response has always been, 'Watch me.'

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

I had that laser focus, identified what I wanted when I was a kid, and never let anything get in my way. If you look on paper at who I am and what I sound like, and what I look like, you wouldn't say, 'Go into broadcasting.' It's just what I wanted to do - I knew that I could do it, and I never let anyone tell me that I couldn't.

Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.

On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.

Being from Serbia makes us tough and eager to prove that we can come from this country that has been through so much and still be successful.

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

I wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef - I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can't deny where you come from and what's in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven't looked back since.

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

Of course I expected to rise so quickly. I know what I'm capable of. Even though other people didn't know, I was going to make sure they knew exactly who Alexa Bliss was, and I was going to make sure they never forgot it.

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

My philosophy is fight anyone, anywhere. If you're going to be the best then you're going to have to beat them all, so why pick and choose?

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.

Hits and flops happen in everyone's careers. Be it an actor or a filmmaker, you can't let that affect your conviction.

You know, whatever people say, nothing's going to change it - what I think, what I'm capable of.

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

It's a quality you need to be a world champion; you have to have that killer instinct.