Home > Topic > my ambition
1 " It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche
2 " The negative thoughts inside my head blown into a multiple rays of hope for my goals in life adding some motivated aspects of my ambition triggered my inner sanctum to prolong the basic human emotions. "
3 " At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. "
― Salvador Dalí
4 " I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction. "
― Sara Sheridan
5 " When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver. "
― Amos Oz , A Tale of Love and Darkness
6 " It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want. "
― Nelson Mandela , Long Walk to Freedom
7 " I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be. "
― Jennifer Megan Varnadore
8 " When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. "
― Jim Henson
9 " Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. "
― Johnny Depp
10 " When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. "
11 " All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. "
12 " Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along. "
13 " Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me. "
14 " I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me. "
