The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: ‘I won more money.’
I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.
When you do a record like ‘Talk,’ and you’re happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn’t sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.
We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.
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.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
I’m big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain.
My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
It’s true that PSG have the ambition to win the Champions League, so they could be interesting for a player like me.
I’m not – I’m not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don’t seek power. I don’t seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.
Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That’s not to say humble people don’t exist there, but ambition seems really important.
I don’t think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can’t do everything.
My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, and after that, I went through everything from wanting to be a Prime Minister to an air hostess, but never an actor. So I became one, and it was a great journey. I learnt a lot, worked very hard.
I’m instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
I’m a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there’s not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.
I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.
Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization’s mission.
My life has always been about making certain I accrue the skills necessary to make my ambitions real.
It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition would be levied and tenure denied. I’ve seen this first-hand.
Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.
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.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.
I have no limits to my ambition for the Liberal Democrats.
Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.
I had discovered journalism to be my life’s ambition.
I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I’ve had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It’s hard being a young actor, because you don’t realise until later that it’s only ever about doing the work.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
If something has not been part of your dreams or ambitions, then you are not awestruck by it.
Talent is always more interesting – ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world’s terms.
My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.
I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense – on the order of Mike Gibbons.
I’ve always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you’re doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
One day we were in Limerick… and then, a few weeks later, we were being flown around to play. When we started, it was just a hobby. It wasn’t any big ambition.
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
By the time I was 14, my most burning ambition was to leave my home, leave my neighborhood, leave my city. I kept it a secret wish. It was easier done than said. It wasn’t only that I wanted to leave Chicago – I wanted to live in New York City. And I did – for a time.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
I’ve always affirmed, nobody’s ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.
I don’t even think in terms of ambition.
A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it’s just pouring off the screen. Because they don’t often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don’t usually get a chance to work with other black people.
I know my ambition and my passion and to know how I want to grow up with Arsenal.
My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts – a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff – but we certainly don’t think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
I don’t mind getting older. I’m enjoying not having that raging ambition I’ve had all my life.
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.
Ledger art represents a spirit which has lasted through the hardships and turmoil. It is my goal and ambition that this style of pictograph art continues to pay tribute to the perseverance of my ancestors who adapted and created works of art during a period of life changing turmoil and injustice.
I’ve been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I’ve had with the Foo Fighters – playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It’s amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet.
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
I think there’s no limit to ambition, and if you want something, you can make anything happen, so go for it.
I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Well, when I was at Leeds it was the best and worst time of my career, because when I was a kid it was my ambition to play for Middlesbrough, where I was born, and my dream to play for Leeds, and everyone said I couldn’t have two teams.
I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, ‘What was it that all of them had in common?’ They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that’s the most beautiful thing.
