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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

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

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

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

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

For those with ambition, reality is more of a creation than an unalterable certainty.

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.