When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion – all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer. – Gayle Forman
I think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I’m really a lucky man. I’ve always accepted whatever I was in, whether it was driving a taxi or entertaining. The jet set might not enjoy what I do, but I deal with the average person. – Don Ho
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. – Emanuel Celler
The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you’re left with is your ambition. – Nicole Krauss
I’ve known people with exceptional talent – and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on. – Geoffrey Boycott
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. – Napoleon Bonaparte
I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A’s and a 4.0 and all that. – Miles Teller
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition. – Mercy Otis Warren
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. – Neil Kinnock
Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect. – Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. – Niccolo Machiavelli
All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power. – Park Geun-hye
What I try to do – I mean ‘try,’ because you don’t get there all the time – is to have impact with content. It’s those moments in which you’re trying to bring people beyond filmed theater. If I have an ambition, it’s that. – Michael Mann
To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn’t cover it. If you cut me open, you’d see it. – Michael Keaton
I’ve been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn’t just a desperate quest for positions or money. It’s just love – lots of love. – Janis Joplin
Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, ‘It’s not going on forever, this.’ Let’s make the most of what time I have left. – Jeremy Irons
I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I’d be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself. – Jane Lynch
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. – Jimmy Cliff
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. – Jordin Sparks
It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team’s ambition. – Kimi Raikkonen