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 sen...

Your lack of ambition is truly remarkable. - John Green The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it. - Criss Jami