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

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

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

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.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

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

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

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

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.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

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.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

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

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Some day I shall be President.

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.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

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

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

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

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

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

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

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

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.

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.

When I was five I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

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

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

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

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.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

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.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.