Quotes About Ambition

I wasn't raised to make history. In high school and family, no one around me was politically involved, and few of my friends planned to attend college or even thought about it.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

In Pakistan, if you have to become a cricketer you have to be a politician first.

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

Russ Feingold is a career politician. He's addicted to it.

My childhood dream was never to be a politician.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm not a politician.

Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.

My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.

None from my family was in politics. I am a first-generation politician.

I am sure I will make a great politician because I love to help people.

I do not purport to be a professional politician.

If I was not serious about politics, I would not have left behind my successful career to become a politician.

After establishing myself as politician I will take decision about my future in film industry.

I read a lot of history. It has taught me that any politician has to overcome difficult periods in order to achieve their goals.

Just like a politician's son or daughter joins politics, it happens in our industry, too.

No politician wants to be challenged. They all say they want to be, but we all want to be anointed.

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.