Quotes about Ambition

I want to open a restaurant, and I want to start selling properties. I want to own some stock.

Becoming a musician is a strange thing. It's not all cupcakes and ice cream. You're trying to master an instrument, and you sometimes can't tell if you're getting better. You love it, but you also hate it.

I always dreamed about being a pro QB but more than anything, I wanted to be like my dad.

What we are getting at is that, because you are a human being, there is always something you are living for; always some desire, goal, treasure, purpose, value, or craving that controls your heart.

Your words are always in pursuit of some kind of kingdom.

Milan offered me something. I was very interested by the project. It did not happen for many reasons.

For me, it would be the perfect summer to play in the Euros and then the Olympics. My desire is to play in both.

Being one of the best in the world, you want to go against one of the best in the world - one-on-one, man-on-man.

I was a wicket-keeper who opened the batting. Could I have made it? Hard to say. I probably wouldn't quite have been good enough. I might get back into it once I've finished with the football.

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the very outset of my life freedom, and freedom is everything.

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be.  That is his punishment.  Those who want a mask have to wear it.