I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
Peter Straub

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.
Joe Rogan

I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.
Helen Reddy

I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.
David Friedman

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
Richard Linklater

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
Patsy Cline

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
Helen Reddy

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
Monica Bellucci

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
Bob Edwards

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
Lee Atwater

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
John Hurt

It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.
Roger Staubach

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai Baba

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
Robert Jackson

Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going.
Lynette Fromme

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
Omar Bongo

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
Joshua Lederberg