Quotes About Ambition

I knew I wanted to be an engineer, but I didn't know what type of engineer. I chose electrical engineering primarily because it was the hardest one to get into. It's ridiculous when I think about it now, but it worked out OK.

There was a point when I thought I would primarily be a writer, but the acting seems to have got in the way. So when I do get a chance, I jump at it.

I feel that when you are passionate about what you do, money will follow. If money becomes the primary factor, passion goes down the drain.

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

Money has never been my primary goal.

GOP leaders need to let go of their ego factions and come together with one primary goal in mind: keeping 'Billary' from getting back into the Oval Office.

I lost my first mayor's race. I lost the primary. But we came back and won that. So I know you've got to play to win, but you can't be afraid to lose.

My dream was always to be in museums. It's a big and important milestone and a fulfillment of one of my primary ambitions.

My primary goal was to make a movie with the best of my ability. It was not that I have to make the film, I have to write it, I have to produce it and I have to direct it.

I had to earn everything. So to have an opportunity to be a primary perimeter option on the offense is really something that I really enjoy.

I knew I always wanted to be my own boss. My mum would say I've been my own boss since primary school. It was probably always my destiny.

At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious.

Clearly, when I first started talking about the fact that I wanted to be an astronaut, I was in primary school, so people understand that we want to be all kinds of things then. It's not a big deal.

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.

I am a prime example of what the American dream is.

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.

I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.

Money has never been of prime importance to me.

I want to be in my prime making the big money, enough money to put away so I can do something.

My prime motivation is wanting to be happy. I'm not worried about fame. In this profession, it's not a question of if it ends, it's when. So it doesn't matter.

The Champions League has been the prime objective of my career.

The fact I'm the third female Prime Minister, I never grew up believing my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.