America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
I like to teach. And when I spot talent without ambition, it makes me angry. I give students short shrift if they’re not willing to do the work. Relying on talent is not enough.
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.
What we have, what we wish we had – ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost – these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.
It’s interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It’s giving that person a lot of power.
I have absolutely no ambition. My goal has already been exceeded.
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.
Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It’s an ego trip, and I’m not on an ego trip. I don’t have ambitions – I have a vision.
Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions.
Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni’s ‘Pinocchio’ that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of Carlo Collodi’s fairy tale about the wooden puppet whose only ambition was to be a real live boy was sneaked into theaters Christmas Day.
My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Was it my lifelong ambition to be in the movie business? No.
Bullies will attack your confidence, but you cannot let them kill your ambition.
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.
Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness.
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. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
In the midst of all our emotional upheaval caused by ambition, aggression, rejection, transition, addiction, limitation and competition, the one thing that remains constant within us is our deep desire to be happy.
I always dreamt of being in ‘Kerrang.’ That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then the jazz magazines took over.
What is my loftiest ambition? I’ve always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
In the U.K., we have always had international ambitions and international responsibilities. These obviously predate the E.U.; we have been trading and doing business in Europe for centuries.
My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis Presley burst on to the screen, singing ‘Don’t Be Cruel,’ I felt my first sexual thrill, though I didn’t know what it was at the time.
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you’ve got to send humans.
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.
Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited 13 years, mostly in Tony Blair’s shadow, for this poisoned chalice and has a pessimist’s luck.
If you don’t have ambition to be one of the best, someone will always come and take your place.
I never wanted to be an actress. I didn’t have any ambition in that area.
One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that’s how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn’t treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter.
For my book, ‘Age of Ambition,’ I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of young Chinese strivers who are bombarded by pressures unlike those that their parents faced.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
I’m a proud New Zealander, and I represent Paralympics New Zealand. I love what I do, and I do it because I love it. The passion is unbelievable in every race I do. I have the ambition to change things outside the pool, too.
My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn’t quite know what I wanted to do.
I would like to win the Ballon d’Or for women. But every top professional should have that ambition.
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
When I was 27, I didn’t have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.
There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don’t. I’m in the second category, that’s all.
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
But for me, personally, I didn’t have any ambitions to become an actor. I’m interested in getting behind the camera.
My stupid ambition is to make a film that’s not like any other – one that has its own kind of logic and hooks viewers without making them think too much. It’s a film I’d love to see, one in which after 10 minutes the audience isn’t able to predict the whole thing.
‘Intensity’ is a good word. It’s like ambition, if it’s not ambition at expense of someone else.
You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.
I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.
My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I’d like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
