Ambitious Quotes · Page 12

I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.

— Samuel L. Jackson

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

— Alan Hansen

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

— Michael J. Fox

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

— Brandon Flowers

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the…

— Melissa Leo

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

— Sam Altman

“Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.”

— Ryan Lilly

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of…

— Mindy Kaling

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got…

— Jay Inslee

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all…

— Anonymous

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a…

— Vanessa Carlton

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much…

— Saul Leiter

PSG is an ambitious club that wants to be the best in the world. So you have to win all the competitions…

— Kylian Mbappe

Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you…

— Natalie Massenet

People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and…

— Perry Como

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational.…

— Thomas McEvilley

Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from…

— Tom Cotton

Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than…

— Nigel Hamilton

Everybody I knew who was really ambitious and kind of annoying wanted to move to New York. I like it here but…

— Urs Fischer

The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets,…

— Cesar Pelli

In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though,…

— John Eisenhower

We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious…

— Larry Page

I surrounded myself with a lot of different creative people and ambitious people.

— Justine Skye

If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.

— Laszlo Bock

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

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive.

— Scott Belsky

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

— Arthur Keith

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

— Christopher Walken

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

— Diablo Cody

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Chris Evert

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my…

— Jim Dine

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

— Charles Kuralt

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isnt an option. Its a necessity.

— Anonymous

“An ambitious woman never takes seriously men's compliments.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

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

— Clive Barker

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

— Louis Kronenberger