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

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

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.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

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

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.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

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

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

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 rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

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

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

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

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

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I always wanted more – more of everything.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.

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.

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

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

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

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.

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

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

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.

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

Big results require big ambitions.

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.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

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

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.

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

I want to put a ding in the universe.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ‚eternity‘; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

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.

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

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.

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.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

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

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

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

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

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.