As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

I’m not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

I didn’t know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that’s what I was going to be.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

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.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking ‚that is what I want to do.‘

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

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.

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

I have won this lottery. It’s a gigantic lottery, and it’s called Amazon.com. And I’m using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years – since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, ‚Hercules‘ was one of the movies that I – not chased, because I didn’t have the power to chase anything – but always had in the back of my mind.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.