My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
- Van Morrison
It is my ambition as a Dichter to maintain, for a small number of people who may happen to understand me and be accessible to my influence, a transcendent life, or at least the desire for it, in the midst of the money-and-war-culture which the world has become.
- Hermann Hesse
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.
- Paul Auster
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
- Horace Walpole
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.
- Emmanuelle Beart
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
- Juliette Binoche
In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.
- James W Black
Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.
- Brenda Blethyn
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.
- Salvador Dali
My ambition is handicapped by laziness
- Charles Bukowski
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
- Willa Cather
I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.
- Emanuel Celler
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
- Charles Cotton
My ambition is to be happy.
- Penelope Cruz
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
- Lynn Davies
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
- Mos Def
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
- Johnny Depp
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
- Placido Domingo
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That's because we typically begin at the wrong starting pointourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.
- Rick Warren
personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good
behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer
it is not much of a step up but i am humble
- Don Marquis
From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.
- Louise Fletcher
I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.
- Eva Gabor
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.
- Lady Gaga
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
- Lady Gaga
My ambition was to live like music.
- Mary Gaitskill
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
- Anna Held
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
- Jim Henson
My ambition is peace and perfection.
- Deforest Kelley
I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.
- Imran Khan
My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.
- Mike Krzyzewski
I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'
- Dino De Laurentiis
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
- Joshua Lederberg
You want the secret off my succes; my recipe? I have always brought the same care to making an adventure novel, a serialized novel, that others would bring to the making of a poem. My ambition was to raise the level of this much maligned genre.
- Gaston Leroux
My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.
- David Lipsky
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
- Ella Maillart
I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.
- Eva Mendes
I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.
- Penelope Ann Miller
My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
- Ilie Nastase
My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.
- Graham Norton
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
- Archie Panjabi
There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.
- Trevor Phillips
On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
- T Boone Pickens
Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.
- Alessandro Del Piero
I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.
- Helen Reddy
My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.
- Alexandra Roach
My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.
- Graham Roberts
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
- David Lee Roth
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
- Caroll Shelby
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
- Jock Sturges
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
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
- Swami Vivekananda
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
- Kit Williams
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.
- Venus Williams
In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
- Panayiotis Zavos
- Van Morrison
It is my ambition as a Dichter to maintain, for a small number of people who may happen to understand me and be accessible to my influence, a transcendent life, or at least the desire for it, in the midst of the money-and-war-culture which the world has become.
- Hermann Hesse
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.
- Paul Auster
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
- Horace Walpole
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.
- Emmanuelle Beart
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
- Juliette Binoche
In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.
- James W Black
Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.
- Brenda Blethyn
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.
- Salvador Dali
My ambition is handicapped by laziness
- Charles Bukowski
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
- Willa Cather
I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.
- Emanuel Celler
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
- Charles Cotton
My ambition is to be happy.
- Penelope Cruz
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
- Lynn Davies
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
- Mos Def
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
- Johnny Depp
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
- Placido Domingo
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That's because we typically begin at the wrong starting pointourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.
- Rick Warren
personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good
behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer
it is not much of a step up but i am humble
- Don Marquis
From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.
- Louise Fletcher
I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.
- Eva Gabor
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.
- Lady Gaga
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
- Lady Gaga
My ambition was to live like music.
- Mary Gaitskill
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
- Anna Held
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
- Jim Henson
My ambition is peace and perfection.
- Deforest Kelley
I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.
- Imran Khan
My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.
- Mike Krzyzewski
I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'
- Dino De Laurentiis
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
- Joshua Lederberg
You want the secret off my succes; my recipe? I have always brought the same care to making an adventure novel, a serialized novel, that others would bring to the making of a poem. My ambition was to raise the level of this much maligned genre.
- Gaston Leroux
My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.
- David Lipsky
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
- Ella Maillart
I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.
- Eva Mendes
I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.
- Penelope Ann Miller
My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
- Ilie Nastase
My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.
- Graham Norton
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
- Archie Panjabi
There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.
- Trevor Phillips
On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
- T Boone Pickens
Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.
- Alessandro Del Piero
I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.
- Helen Reddy
My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.
- Alexandra Roach
My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.
- Graham Roberts
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
- David Lee Roth
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
- Caroll Shelby
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
- Jock Sturges
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
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
- Swami Vivekananda
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
- Kit Williams
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.
- Venus Williams
In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
- Panayiotis Zavos
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