Ambition Quotes

“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.”

“This woman's place is in the House—the House of Representatives.”

“I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My ambition is to be remembered as a writer, a historian, a poet.”

“The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.”

“In New York, you're always looking for a job, a boyfriend, or an apartment.”

“To be clever and adored! That is my ambition.”

“My best work is always ahead of me.”

“You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate.”

“I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.”

“I would love to work in a Bollywood movie, and I am a fan of Shah Rukh Khan.”

“All I wanted was to be a star. I didn't want to be a singer. I didn't want to be a songwriter. I wanted to be a star.”

“I wanted to be a ballerina. I was a good dancer, but not a great dancer. It's a very difficult and competitive profession.”

“To be a champion, you've got to have a little larceny in you.”

“I have a general principle: if you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.”

“My whole life, I've been told I wouldn't be anything. And I made myself something.”

“This is a plain and simple truth; and I heartily wish I had had a little more money to have gone on with the improvements I have made.”

“We needed to be aspiring and inspirational. We have to be the Nike of this industry.”

“Most chemists have a secret ambition: to be a synthetic chemist.”

“The wider our horizon, the more we shall see that we have to do.”

“I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.”