Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they’d done. – John Caudwell
When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff. – Katie Price
There’s no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work. – Kathleen Kennedy
The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall. – Louis XIV
I had this vague notion that one day I might be editor of ‘Vogue China.’ It was a bizarre ambition, as I didn’t speak a word of Chinese. There were flaws in my plan, admittedly. – Katie McGrath
There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind. – Mitt Romney
My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about. – Johann Lamont
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. – Jessye Norman
I wasn’t the typical pageant girl – I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition. – Joyce Giraud
In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth. – John Caudwell
Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn’t the key. – Lily Cole
Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion. – Kimi Raikkonen
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man. – Lajos Kossuth
Who said, who said I can’t be ten feet tall I say, I say That I can have it all. – Miley Cyrus As Hannah Montana in Hannah Montana Season One, from song, Who Said.
I’m going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind – blind ambition, and it’s kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I’ll stick to it. – Katy Perry
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. – James L. Buckley
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, ‘What is your ambition?’ He said, ‘I want to have 10 very good suits.’ – Luise Rainer
My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that’s still what I do: teach. – Mike Krzyzewski
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn’t nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. – Michael J. Fox
It’s a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition. – Kevin Spacey
My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before. – Martin Freeman