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I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

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

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church.

Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

A lot of people have the ambition, but they never ask themselves, Do I really believe I can do this?

I would like to win the Ballon d'Or for women. But every top professional should have that ambition.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

I am committed and content to work for the people of Odisha. I have no national ambitions whatsoever.

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

My life has always been about making certain I accrue the skills necessary to make my ambitions real.

Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

While there are many moderate Muslims, Islam's political ideology is radical and has global ambitions.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

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

The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.

I have a lot to say about my confidence, my fears, my adversaries, my ambitions, my goals and failures.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.

To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people, Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions

The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.

Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it?

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

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