Ambitious Quotes

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.

Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are.

I'm in a happy place. I'm very at peace with who I am and what I'm doing and the people around me, so I think I'm probably most ambitious at where I am.

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.

To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide.

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

Be ambitious about things that last.

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance

I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.

Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, [in terms of] believing in themselves. There is no need to apologise for being ambitious.

We have now reached a level where we should be even more ambitious. We should focus on more tangible mechanisms and outcomes. Make BRICS a platform of Impact.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub.

We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.