Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition…

By just passing through things, I continue to slightly limit myself. I want the jobs that don't say that much. I'm often the stepping…

— Gavin Rossdale

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