Quotes About Ambition

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!

One of the things I'm so determined to preserve and restore is the fact that you can be the kid who was born in Dinsdale and find yourself working for the British government in the U.K., to being prime minister.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

My childhood dream was to be prime minister.

I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

To be prime minister, you need to fight many entities, you need to be very determined. It's not going to fall in your lap.

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.

I'd rather rule the world now than be prime minister.

One day, when I have advertising out of my system, I want to be Prime Minister of Australia.

It's a bit bold to go around saying, 'Prime Minister, if there's an opportunity I really want to be in this department,' but that's what I did.

I am going to be prime minister.

I want to become prime minister.

I thought I would be Prime Minister.

I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.

I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences.

I never dreamt to be a princess in my life; I really dreamt to be an actress, but I dreamt of princesses on screen.

I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a voice.

When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I want to be an actress-singer-dancer because you can be a rich fairy princess and tell someone off.'