My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
Anjelica Huston

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.
Michael Strahan

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
Philip Levine

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
Stephen Sondheim

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
Lajos Kossuth

My one ambition is to play a hero.
Sessue Hayakawa

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.
David Hasselhoff

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.
Juliette Binoche

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
Gene Tunney

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
Ravi Shankar

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.
Terry Josephson

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
Riccardo Muti

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Orison Swett Marden

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
Taylor Caldwell

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Horace Walpole

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
Samuel Dash

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
Lawrence Welk

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
Bianca Jagger