Ambitious Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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 have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

I'm not very ambitious at all.

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

As a typically ambitious player, I did what all others of that ilk do: Everything I could do to gain advantage for my PCs and rise in level as rapidly as possible.

The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with undercapitalization.

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

[ Marco Rubio] overly ambitious, too young, and I have better hair than he does.

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

I thought he might hit me over the head, knowing that he wanted to do the whole show. He was young, ambitious, and a huge talent. But he was also very gentle, and we got along fine.

This is very ambitious, but I don't care. I'm just gonna go ahead and find Amelia Earhart. Every day that goes by, I just fear the worst for her.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive.

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

I think the problem with Western students is they're very ambitious.

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.

Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.

No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

An ambitious and beautifully produced fever dream. Don't wake me up, I want to stay in.

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.