Ambitious Quotes

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.

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

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

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

I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

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

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

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.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

I'm belligerent rather than 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 am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity.

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

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

I think sometimes we in the industry have to do ambitious projects.

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

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

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.

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.