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Ambition

«I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.»
Author: Eden Phillpotts (Writer) | About: Ambition, Fortune
«I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.»
Author: Oliver Reed | About: Ambition | Keywords: ambitions, dry, pub, pubs, sleep with
«Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies»
«Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.»
Author: Bob Marley (Composer, Guitarist, Singer) | About: Ambition, Mankind | Keywords: Chinese
«I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.»
Author: Frank Sinatra (Actor, Singer) | About: Ambition, Expectation, Knowledge | Keywords: pass on
«I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.»
Author: Joseph Conrad | About: Ambition, Doing Your Best | Keywords: farther
«I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.»
Author: Madonna (Actress, Singer) | About: Ambition, Celebrity, Fame, God | Keywords: As god, famous
«I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame»
«Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.»
«I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Ambition | Keywords: thankless

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