Ambition Quotes

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

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.

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.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

My ambition is peace and perfection.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

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

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

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

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

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

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

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

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

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

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.

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

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.