Famous Ambition Quotes

#1. I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

Zadie Smith

#2. If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have to get an amanuensis who will write for you.

Richard Lewontin

#3. Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.

Marty Rubin

#4. To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal of the survivor.

Bauvard

#5. I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.

Randeep Hooda

#6. I remember the whole thing with the word ambition. I was messed up for a while because I associated it with certain people who just want to be famous. I think, for a while, it was kind of a dirty word for women.

Winona Ryder

#7. The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.

Bryan Adams

#8. Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.

T.E. Lawrence

#9. She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, 'You will be famous.' "The seed was planted. Ambition fed on the compost of my vanity.

F.R. Tallis

#10. As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

Jarvis Cocker

#11. I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I'm doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.

Newt Gingrich

#12. I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.

Robbie Williams

#13. Armstrong was perfect for their goals - an extraordinary combination of athletic talent, drive, ambition, and ruthlessness. And once he began winning, he became the chairman and CEO of the business of making himself rich and famous.

Reed Albergotti