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

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.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

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.

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

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

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

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.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

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

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.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

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

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.

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

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

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.

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.

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.

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

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

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

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

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

I’ve always been a loner.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

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.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

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

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

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

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.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

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

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.

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

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

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.

I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

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

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.

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

I’m so not macho. It’s crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

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.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Big results require big ambitions.

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.

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