Ambition Quote by Paterson Joseph

Apart from being an actor, I'm an academician. I wanted to pursue something with which I could bring about a change in society.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

“So I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others,…

— Alain de Botton

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art -…

— Anonymous

Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

— Ian Bremmer

I've always been really ambitious, whatever I do. At school, I always wanted to be the best in the class - no, it wasn't…

— Sophia Myles

I've had so many challenges throughout my career, however successful people perceive me to be.

— Madonna Ciccone

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth,…

— Virginia Gildersleeve

I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural…

— Theodore Roosevelt

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

— Paul Lansky

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible…

— George Eliot

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

— Taylor Caldwell