I don't think I focused on the financial part of it, but definitely, my ambition is to be great, and that always meant that the sky was the limit for what I was hoping to do.

I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.

Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

To be given a lead role in something as cool and fresh and crazy as 'Spartacus' was a real thrill. That had a lot to do with the evolution of my ambition as well.

I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars.'

If you get someone right out of college - and I meet a lot of them - you're not going to get a lot of experience at all, so you have to feel the ambition and desire, which is based on a lot of factors.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

It was never really an ambition of ours to crack the States. Things happen and people ask you to do stuff, but we never sat there and said, 'Oh, my God, we must break America!'

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

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.

I think sometimes drive and ambition of individuals should not be confused as arrogance, and sometimes Cristiano gets that tag on him.

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.