Quotes about My Ambition

My ambition is to be happy. Votes: 4

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition. Votes: 4

It's not my ambition to be a big star. Votes: 4

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition. Votes: 4

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands. Votes: 4

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition. Votes: 4

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style. Votes: 4

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life. Votes: 4

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. Votes: 4

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. Votes: 4

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. Votes: 4

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. Votes: 4

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister. Votes: 4

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. Votes: 4

I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death. Votes: 4

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions. Votes: 4

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born. Votes: 4

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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 Votes: 4

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. Votes: 4

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. Votes: 4

I have reached the summit of my ambition. Votes: 3

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12. Votes: 3

I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition. Votes: 3

I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten, Votes: 3

All I can say is that my ambition far exceeded my talent. Votes: 3

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film. Votes: 3

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. Votes: 3

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word. Votes: 3

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. Votes: 3

I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt. Votes: 3

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims. Votes: 3

I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition. Votes: 3

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition. Votes: 3

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless. Votes: 3

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor. Votes: 3

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art. Votes: 3

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.' Votes: 3

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician. Votes: 3

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales. Votes: 3

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness Votes: 3

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along. Votes: 3

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first. Votes: 3

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is. Votes: 3

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office. Votes: 3

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go. Votes: 3

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far. Votes: 3

It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys. Votes: 3

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me. Votes: 3

If I wish to be well in my mind, then I must write, and there is no cure for my ambition, and thank the Lord for that. Votes: 3

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions. Votes: 3

I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear. Votes: 3

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It's a reminder to stay on top of my game. That's not a place I want to go back to. Votes: 3

Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. Votes: 3

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born. Votes: 3

Songs have taught me more about life than school ever has and how to follow my ambitions no matter what they are and how to live my life no matter the trade-off. Votes: 3

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way. Votes: 3

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel. Votes: 3

When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff. Votes: 3

At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in my ambition I fly to the Rockies. Votes: 3

There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific. Votes: 3

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. Votes: 3

That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story. Votes: 3

The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table. Votes: 3

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. Votes: 3

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. Votes: 3

I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man. Votes: 3

When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition. Votes: 3

My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That's my job. And that's where my ambition goes. But I have a life. I'm not only their mother. I'm still who I was before, I just don't get to be it all the time. Votes: 3

I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I went on a tour of my own. I didn't go to New York because that was too well known for its art scene. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 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. Votes: 3

My ambition is peace and perfection. Votes: 2

My ambition is handicapped by laziness Votes: 2

My ambition was to live like music. Votes: 2

I've become a captive of my own ambitions. Votes: 2

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre. Votes: 2

My one ambition is to play a hero. Votes: 2

My only ambition is to grow as a musician. Votes: 2

My ambition is to get better as an actor. Votes: 2

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children. Votes: 2

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition. Votes: 2

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything. Votes: 2

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent. Votes: 2

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. Votes: 2

My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people. Votes: 2

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become. Votes: 2

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that. Votes: 2

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition. Votes: 2

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud. Votes: 2

My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team in the world. Votes: 2

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver. Votes: 2

My ambition cannot be stopped! Votes: 0

My ambition is that I have the best players Votes: 0

My ambition is always to get better and better. Votes: 0

I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities. Votes: 0

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans. Votes: 0

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money. Votes: 0

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary. Votes: 0

My political ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian Votes: 0

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living. Votes: 0

My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American. Votes: 0

My ambition when I was four years old was to be married. Votes: 0

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it. Votes: 0

To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition. Votes: 0

Secret of my success was to have ambition and know minds of men. Votes: 0

From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition. Votes: 0

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed. Votes: 0

That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's. Votes: 0

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman. Votes: 0

My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list. Votes: 0

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day. Votes: 0

My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition. Votes: 0

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem. Votes: 0

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope. Votes: 0

It has always been my dream and ambition to introduce Irish dancing to the world. Votes: 0

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic. Votes: 0

My ambition is to unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature. Votes: 0

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. Votes: 0

I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly. Votes: 0

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. Votes: 0

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor. Votes: 0

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know. Votes: 0

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream. Votes: 0

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive. Votes: 0

Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp. Votes: 0

If i can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition i have is nothing but talk.. Votes: 0

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine. Votes: 0

My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family. Votes: 0

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end. Votes: 0

My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special. Votes: 0

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me. Votes: 0

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future. Votes: 0

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about. Votes: 0

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere, Votes: 0

My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form. Votes: 0

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize. Votes: 0

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. Votes: 0

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am. Votes: 0

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. Votes: 0

My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist. Votes: 0

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress. Votes: 0

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family. Votes: 0

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other. Votes: 0

My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time. Votes: 0

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty. Votes: 0

At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion. Votes: 0

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before. Votes: 0

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing. Votes: 0

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity. Votes: 0

I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer. Votes: 0

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons. Votes: 0

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life. Votes: 0

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition Votes: 0

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. Votes: 0

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. Votes: 0

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. Votes: 0

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach. Votes: 0

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high. Votes: 0

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life. Votes: 0

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general. Votes: 0

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame Votes: 0

My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing. Votes: 0

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. Votes: 0

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me. Votes: 0

I was not pushed into the business by anything other than my own ambition and my own dream of wanting to act. Votes: 0

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me. Votes: 0

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen. Votes: 0

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch. Votes: 0

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. Votes: 0

I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family. Votes: 0

Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by Thee. Votes: 0

I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face. Votes: 0

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before. Votes: 0

The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree. Votes: 0

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion. Votes: 0

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free. Votes: 0

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there. Votes: 0

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me. Votes: 0

Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. Votes: 0

The drive, the ambition, the art; it all comes to me when I close my eyes and think about the sacrifices my Mom made for me. Votes: 0

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence. Votes: 0

I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it would be. Votes: 0

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition. Votes: 0

I really don't feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along. Votes: 0

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition. Votes: 0

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough. Votes: 0

To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day. Votes: 0

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do. Votes: 0

Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite. Votes: 0

It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip. Votes: 0

My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work. Votes: 0