Quotes About Ambition

Pena Nieto is a product of the two television networks that groomed him for power and then propelled him to the presidency.

More than Nixon or any other 20th-century president, Clinton has devoted his life to winning and keeping the presidency.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore.

In my heart, I'm confident I could make a good president.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

I can't deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people's lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.

When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.

I've got two Rolexes that I'm very proud of - a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I'm trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

I don't have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I'd do it, though.

For presidential power to meaningfully expand, it is not enough for a president to simply make a power grab.

Governorships and Senate seats are the most common stepping-stone offices for presidential campaigns, and U.S. House seats are the most common stepping-stone positions for statewide campaigns.

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history.

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

In my first press conference I said, 'I'm here to win.' If you don't think that way, or any player thinks that way, why are you playing the game?

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

I've tried to improve - defending, attacking, pressing, trying to think before a game, to be more clever, do something before the defender can think of it, to become a better player. That makes me feel good, that hunger to improve in every way.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.