It’s incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be. – Alan Hansen
My main ambition as a teenager was to somehow resurrect the dark-minded writer Franz Kafka and become his girlfriend. – Amy Gerstler
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. – Brian Cox
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
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. – Anthony Trollope
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
As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English. – Charles Kennedy
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. – Carice van Houten
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. – Aldous Huxley
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. – Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes with people I know, they’re playing the hunky action guy and there’s resistance to them coming out because it’s so connected to straight masculinity. There’s a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don’t agree with it. – Alan Cumming
I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn’t ambitious. – Alan Hansen
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. – Alva Myrdal
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
In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition. – Andrea Bocelli
I go through stages. Randomly, I’ll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I’m extremely attracted to ambition and wit. – Ashley Greene
Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all. – Bob Marley
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire – when you’re telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare. – Beau Willimon
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. – Anthony Trollope
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list. – Charles Babbage
Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015. – Ban Ki-moon
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope – and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future. – Bob Riley
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. – Bianca Jagger