Quotes About Ambition

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.

I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

You dream that you want to be a monster maker when you grow up, and that's what happened. I refused to take no for an answer. I just was a very driven kid, who's now a very driven semi-adult.

I was put into this business by my parents as soon as I could walk. I was groomed by them for this business. I didn't wake up at the early ages of 5 or 6 and say I want to be a star.

Every kid wants to give their family a better life.

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things. I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things.

I was the No. 1 player coming into college and I want to be the No. 1 player heading into the NFL. That's definitely one of my goals.

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for Battlestar. I was very "Oh gosh, I want to be in television, I want to be in something, but I don't know if I want to be in this."

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.