Quotes of: Ambition Keyword

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

Sheldon Jackson

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

Paul Daniels

My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.

Susan Ford

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.

Tom Cotton

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

Theophrastus

People who have NO ambition to make a difference in this life should not interrupt the people who DO.

Tanya Masse

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Katharine Hepburn

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

Liam Neeson

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

Lao Tzu

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

Mandy Moore

As a woman, you feel that you shouldn't want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn't it?

Rosamund Pike

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

Steven Brust

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.

Stephen Rea

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

Lajos Kossuth

My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

Paz Vega

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.

Shia LaBeouf

I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.

Jane Pauley

I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, 'What is your ambition?' He said, 'I want to have 10 very good suits.'

Luise Rainer

I find myself really privileged to be able to go in and look at a set that the likes of Hollywood can provide, and say, 'My God, look at the craftsmanship in this; look at the ambition in it, the scale of it.'

Brendan Gleeson

I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.

James McAvoy