Ambitious Quotes

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

When you are starting out you're inspired by so many different things, you just want to be the best, man...and you're just so ambitious; your drive is just at a million!

The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.

Keep striving for your goals, and remember that it's good to be ambitious.

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

My energy level is very high ... how ambitious it all is depends on lots of different things. But pretty high energy level. I take on a lot of projects at the same time.

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

I'm not ambitious. Not a bit.

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

You can't be both happy and ambitious.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.

Now see, a lot of critics are saying Arnold can't get elected because he's just an ambitious guy with a famous name, who doesn't know anything about running the government. Didn't hurt George Bush.

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

I'm a forthright person and I am ambitious and I do hope that I get to do more, interesting work but not at the expense of me not being who I am.

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

I'm really ambitious.

Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too.

The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors

In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.

I love playing a smart, ambitious, talented woman. Who doesn't? That's really fun for me.

I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

I'm an entrepreneur. 'Ambitious' is my middle name.

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

I'm much more ambitious than I'd like to admit.

Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong, simple, natural sentences.

All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the best, most entertaining article that you can.

I thought about starting a novella club because it seemed less ambitious.

Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.

The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.