ambition quotes

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 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.

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

I came to New York to be a fine artist – that was my ambition.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

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

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

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 like pushing boundaries.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

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

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

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.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

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

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

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.

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.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

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

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

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.

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

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

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.

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

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.

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

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

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

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

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

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.

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

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.