You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to know them, and the more time I spent with them, the more I understood that this was a totally legitimate attitude to life, and why not?
I have absolutely no political ambitions.
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.
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.
I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.
My one ambition is to play a hero.
My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.
Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.
I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
I've had an ambition to be somebody since I was 13 years old because I wanted to help my family. I wanted to hurry and grow up so I could make enough money to buy my father a big car and my mother a beautiful home with an electric washing machine and all those things she used to see in the newspapers.
My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.
I have lots of ambition!
Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
I don't have any massive ambitions to be a movie star.
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.