Ambitious Quotes

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

I'm very ambitious, despite all the challenges I face in the streets.

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

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.

The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?

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.

I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

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

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.

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 would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

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

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

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

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.