Ambition Quote by Thomas A. Edison

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

— Eva Gabor

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it

— Claire Bloom

I wouldn't be able to have the successes in my career if it weren't for the happiness in my personal life.

— Colin Donnell

I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.

— Ian Gillan

I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious.

— Christian Bale

I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

— Walter Cronkite

...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me…

— Anonymous

If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's…

— Janelle Monae

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

— Anonymous

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

— Rachel Field

My ambition is to be happy.

— Penelope Cruz