Ambitious Quotes

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

I'm not really very ambitious.

Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.

To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

All women are ambitious naturallie

We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive and all that? I had a very solid method, and that is team up with ambitious partners.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts.

I've never been ambitious about recording

Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

Ive always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

I don't need to be famous. I'm not that ambitious. At this point, if I'm not sucked in, I'm never going to get sucked in. Being the so-called hot girl, I disconnect from that. It's not that deep.

I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition.

Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

I've never been ambitious.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old

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

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

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money.