My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.
It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.