In my younger days, sometimes family and personal life came second to my ambition.

When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

In Russian, ambition is a bad word. It's arrogant.

I never thought of breaking a record. The only ambition I had was to become the fastest century maker for India, which I did when I broke Azharuddin's record.

When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.

If you have got a dream and you've got ambition, then go for it. You know, unless you try, you'll never know.

I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

My only ambition was to have 10 children. Fashion was an accident.

When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.

I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.

I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.

I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.

Work hard, take it seriously, embrace your ambition. And when you're not doing that, do something - whatever it happens to be - that taps into the part of you that makes you forget about all the rest of it.

I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet.

My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church.

What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.