Molly Ivins Quotes

I'm not here to joke around or waste time. I want to put my city and country on the map, and I won't stop until I'm at the top.

I want to be a major force.

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

Ambition is the immoderate desire of power.

That's what we want people to do. Select a goal or gold and go after it.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

It's good to have a goal.

I'm ambitious. I work hard.

I'm happy where I'm at now, but I want to show the world that I'm the No. 1 fighter. I want to prove it the world. I'm focused and ready.

I've always been a goal-oriented person.

I have my goals, and my goal is to always play.

I was always very, very focused, just thinking about the title.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

I'm not a big goal guy.