ambition Quotes

I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.

When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will - if they're interested in the subject matter - be glad that you did.

When I was 18 or 19, my one ambition was to make a film.

I think I need another trophy on my list, and I know that Barca's ambition is to win the Champions League. This is my goal, too.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

Confidence and ambition are the most attractive qualities to me, and knowing what you want and being upfront about it is a big part of that.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

There's a lack of ambition in politics in terms of what we expect from the government, what it means to have a state.

In Washington, Senator Paul has put his own ambition ahead of Kentuckians and is behind policies that would hurt Kentucky families.

It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.

Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover it's not what they wanted at all. I don't want to be rich.

My ambition is to win the Champions League one day with Tottenham, or the Premier League.

Let's just say that I feel I have the ambition and determination to succeed as a coach.

When you talk about the ambition to get more girls to play at a younger age, they are inspired by watching Toni Duggan and Steph Houghton playing, either live or by watching it on television.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

For a rapper as well-known as Drake, there remains an essential element of mystery about him. For one so open, there's a distance, and he prefers it that way. But then there's something beneath the exterior that reveals itself with urgency in conversation: Drake's raw ambition.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

I don't want to be obnoxious with my ambition or sound like I expect any sort of entitlement here. Hollywood is not in the business of humoring people.

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