My Ambition Quotes

#1. I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

Louise Mensch

#2. My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

Stephen Sondheim

#3. I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.

John McCain

#4. My life is great. It's just not exceptional. And there was a time when it could have been." "You killed your ambition, didn't you?" "It died of natural causes. Of neglect.

Blake Crouch

#5. It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

Jordin Sparks

#7. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

Johnny Depp

#8. My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used to take me on Sunday afternoons to see matinees. The most extraordinary things used to occur on that stage.

David Wenham

#9. Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

Eydie Gorme

#10. I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

Michael Jackson

#11. What do you mean I have to wait for someone's approval? I'm someone. I approve. So I give myself permission to move forward with my full support!

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

Paul Auster

#13. Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

Jeff MacNelly

#14. I find myself really privileged to be able to go in and look at a set that the likes of Hollywood can provide, and say, 'My God, look at the craftsmanship in this; look at the ambition in it, the scale of it.'

Brendan Gleeson

#15. I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

Patsy Cline

#16. To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

Dalai Lama

#17. I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

Paul Shaffer

#18. My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

Susanna Kaysen

#19. From "boyhood up," as Lincoln once confided to his old friend Ward Hill Lamon, "my ambition was to be President.

Harold Holzer

#20. My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.

Andrew Forge

#21. 'Titanic' made me want to tell stories ... To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams ... It came at a very troubled period of my life.

Xavier Dolan

#22. I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

Emanuel Celler

#23. May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is
and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.

Bette Davis

#24. As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.

Stephen Fry

#25. I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.

Rebecca Ferguson

#26. My vision is to change the world and paint it with a brush that is powerful enough to make us one.

Morgan Chabane

#27. Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

Carroll Shelby

#28. I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who I am. I enjoy the experience of rising above my perceived limitations and discovering new levels of my capabilities.

Steve Maraboli

#29. I think my mother had a lot of opportunity when she was a kid. She was a model, and she did a lot of things in her life, but she had no real ambition. I think my mother really did want a home and kids and all of that.

Kim Basinger

#30. My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

Miranda Kerr

#31. On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India ... However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

Dervla Murphy

#32. Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we can worship, but not touch; a wild desire, that, in the madness of the thought, soars higher in its dignity, and leaves me weeping in the dust.

William Batchelder Greene

#33. These are O Lord the humble desires of my most reasonable ambition and all I dare call happinesse on earth: wherein I set no rule or limit to thy hand or providence. Dispose of me according to the wisdome of thy pleasure. Thy will bee done, though in my owne undoing.

Thomas Browne

#34. I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

Penelope Ann Miller

#35. My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.

W.C. Fields

#36. Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.

Bela Lugosi

#37. I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

John Adams

#38. Jenny, all my life I have wanted to do miracles. I have wanted to be holy. I suppose it was ambition or pride or some other unworthy thing. It was not enough for me to conquer the world
I wanted to conquer heaven too.

T.H. White

#39. My mother supported my every artistic ambition. I don't wonder why. I'm beyond grateful. But when I think of my grandparents barely surviving the war, I feel so pampered. What an indulgence to be an artist. So this is it, this is all I can offer, to the living and to the dead.

Leela Corman

#40. I never wanted to feel ashamed for striving, for desiring, for ambition. And I never wanted to judge another woman, or anyone, for that matter, for their own aspirations, even if they differed from my own

Carrie Brownstein

#41. I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday.

Chip Gaines

#42. When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all.

Chris Ware

#43. I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.

Tupac Shakur

#44. My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Berthe Morisot

#45. Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don't consider ambition to be a bad one. It's served me very well in my life. Very well.

Rob Lowe

#46. I was not pushed into the business by anything other than my own ambition and my own dream of wanting to act.

Tina Majorino

#47. My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition-to write something worthwhile.

Jim Morrison

#48. 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.

Jai Courtney

#49. The reading of great books has been a life-altering activity to me and, for better or worse, brought me singing and language-obsessed to that country where I make my living. Except for teaching, I've had no other ambition in life than to write books that mattered.

Pat Conroy

#50. Disturb my sleep but darling don't dare disturb my dreams!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#51. I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

Lajos Kossuth

#52. Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes ... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

John Constable

#53. In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential ... Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.

Renee Fleming

#54. Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

Alex Flinn

#55. I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.

Patti Smith

#56. My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.'

Pete Hamill

#57. My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse
I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

George Sand

#58. To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

Henry Ford

#59. I was happy when I got into film school. I'd simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in - nothing else - although I do believe they shouldn't have accepted me. I was a complete idiot. I can't understand why they took me. Probably because I'd tried three times.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#60. It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

Marie Curie

#61. It is my ambition as a Dichter to maintain, for a small number of people who may happen to understand me and be accessible to my influence, a transcendent life, or at least the desire for it, in the midst of the money-and-war-culture which the world has become.

Hermann Hesse

#62. Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.

Sandra Chami Kassis

#63. You want the secret off my succes; my recipe? I have always brought the same care to making an adventure novel, a serialized novel, that others would bring to the making of a poem. My ambition was to raise the level of this much maligned genre.

Gaston Leroux

#64. My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

Mason Cooley

#65. Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.

Marquis De Lafayette

#66. The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

Placido Domingo

#67. I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a living ... My whole freedom working in photography comes because I say to myself, Let's see what is going on in this world. Let's find out. How do these people look?

Lisette Model

#68. It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.

Gary Hume

#69. I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

David Morrissey

#70. My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.

Rafe Spall

#71. I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference .

Kevin Rudd

#72. I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday of my life ... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody.

Ruskin Bond

#73. I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .

Chris Corrigan

#74. My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

Juliette Binoche

#75. My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.

Amelia Earhart

#76. My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.

Royal Robbins

#77. 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.

Jon Landau

#78. At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#79. I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

Rebecca Wells

#80. Personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good
behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer
it is not much of a step up but i am humble

Don Marquis

#81. For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.

Daniel Woodrell

#82. It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

Nelson Mandela

#83. My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

David Hasselhoff

#84. Nature is my religion. And my desire ... my ambition ... the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it ... if I can only get the two acquainted.

James Oliver Curwood

#85. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

Mike McGavick

#86. My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

Juliette Binoche

#87. On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

T. Boone Pickens

#88. The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

Stendhal

#89. I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life ... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

James Boswell

#90. Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by Thee.

Henry Francis Lyte

#91. I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about. I would like to be able to since so many people discuss them, but I don't want to work at them. I don't think my ambition is that strong in that direction.

Jasper Johns

#92. Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

Rafe Spall

#93. I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

Eden Phillpotts

#94. I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.

Andrew O'Hagan

#95. I didn't recognize it as such then, because I was only thirteen years old, but later I found it a bit ironic that my first time seeing a woman in all her form and glory and saggy drug-tainted tits, arrived at the same exact time as my first introduction to death.

Dave Matthes

#96. You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

Kit Williams

#97. I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories, that is my main ambition. And to be working with amazing creators.

Stana Katic

#98. Fantastic. My little brother's ambition is to be a stick-in-the-mud moron with no personality.

Melina Marchetta

#99. I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Haruki Murakami

#100. It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

William Faulkner