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.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

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.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

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 can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

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

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

Some day I shall be President.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

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

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

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.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

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.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

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

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

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

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 had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

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

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.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

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.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

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

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

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.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

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

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

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

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

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.

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

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

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.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

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