Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the…

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we…

— Benjamin Franklin

When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so…

— Billy Idol

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the…

— Neil Peart

I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of…

— Jonas Salk

I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

— Roxane Gay

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

— Lord Byron

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My ambitions have ambitions.

— Behdad Sami

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

— David Byrne

For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.

— George Herbert

When I was doing Shakespeare and I had spent a lot of time and effort in trying to become a great Shakespearean actress. That…

— Helen Mirren

My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.

— Priyanka Chopra

My ambition is to one day shed my wardrobe and figure out how to look like Gilles Bensimon - or a famous stylist -…

— Charles Finch