Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so... →
Damien Hirst
The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.
Randeep Hooda
Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American... →
Sheldon Jackson
The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a way of acknowledging this and framing... →
Martin Jacques
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Derek Jarman
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in... →
James Weldon Johnson
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson