Ambitious Quotes

Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.

I was young and ambitious and had the gift of dancing. I tried out for different things and the gift opened doors for me.

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn't that what attracts anyone?

That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she's like, 'I just want to be a mom.

I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.

Make sure it is not too diverse or spread out so people don't know where to go or what to do. So keep a sharp focus. It can be ambitious but should have a small agenda.

I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?"

A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

It's okay to be ambitious, it's okay to be over-prepared.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.

The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

India has the most technically ambitious and innovative nuclear energy program in the world.

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

I suppose that I am ambitious.

Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.

Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into; a decent, compassionate, lovely person; pragmatic, middle-of-the-road and ambitious.

After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

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I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more ambitious than I thought I was.

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

Anybody can be ambitious.

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.

The girls everyone considers the "prettiest" are not always the most interesting or ambitious people.

The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.

Be more ambitious. Don't bunt. When you get a job to do a story or an ad, try and hit the ball out of the park every time

I certainly want to be ambitious for women. I'm ambitious for myself. I think women can definitely find areas in which they want to excel.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.

I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.