Ambitious Quotes

I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress.

Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms.

In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.

For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.

After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.

From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.

It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.

[I am] loyal, ambitious and clever.

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving.

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise.

There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.

Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didnt want to be a singer. I didnt want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.

I am the worst judge of how a movie is going to do. I always have great and ambitious hopes, but none of them see the light of day.

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

It's the most ambitious power grab I've ever witnessed.

I realize Im an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.

A lot of ambitious code has been written into the law for those and we will have to see if it actually works, if we have another example of a big financial institution going bankrupt.

Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.

Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.

It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.

I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album, and the artwork. I always had these ambitious musical projects in mind.

Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude.

Keep your practice very simple and don't be too ambitious.

Learn not to be too ambitious; not to expect if you have a 9-to-5 job and three kids, that you're likely to get buddhahood in one lifetime.

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

When we started Angels Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.

Ruby Stevens was determined, ambitious and tough. She had to fend for herself in so many ways as a child and always felt apart, on her own.

You exist! Be ambitious!

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.

You will see true character after a defeated ambition

Don't ever permit any level of accomplishments to slow down your drive to win.

You can't expect people who are too lazy to run to accompany you on a marathon.

When so many positive ambitious minds come together to work as one, some magical things always happen.

Your destiny is calling on you to surround yourself with people who see moving forward as the only option in life.

You would never know how ambitious you could become until you start surrounding yourself with some highly ambitious positive minded people.

No ambition which feeds on blood can be a worthy one