Ambitious Quotes · Page 14

I was terribly ambitious: I was always thinking why wasn't I in the West End. I really wasted my whole youth.

— Sheila Hancock

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Educating bold and ambitious children from cradle to career stands as a clear and foundational goal for Georgia.

— Stacey Abrams

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

— Indira Gandhi

“any mean, ambitious man,...counts his losses more than his gains.”

— Philippa Gregory

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

— Candace Bushnell

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

— Richard Branson

The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

— Andy Taylor

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

— Harold Ramis

You're not taught to be ambitious as a woman. And so when you are, sometimes you shy away from it or you're…

— Zozibini Tunzi

“Be ambitious. Keep yourself busy. Think bigger. Expand your audience. Don’t hobble yourself in the name of “keeping it real,” or “not…

— Austin Kleon

Aside from someone that makes me laugh and is spontaneous and fun, I like someone that is a family man. Someone that…

— Tayshia Adams

“Even though many people think that being a great leader means being ambitious and having a certain reputation, this is not true…

— James C. Collins

So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief…

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Polly Bergen

In a way, I'm overly ambitious, selfish in a way. I think because I am so active, I think that's what keeps…

— Eric Nam

Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we…

— Rachel Maddow

Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate…

— Maria W. Stewart

Martin Scorcese is probably America's greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or…

— Joe Queenan

I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director,…

— Alex Pettyfer

“Life is too short for fearmongering and becoming ensnarled in lengthy periods of depression. We must use our time judiciously and never…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting…

— George Washington

After Titanic it would have been completely foolish for me to go and try and top that. I'm an English girl, I've…

— Kate Winslet

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I'm not…

— Mads Mikkelsen

“Only women understand the sensitivity of the soul, men are ambitious and ruthless.”

— Aporva Kala

I am simple and an open book. I don't like ambitious and materialistic people.

— Neil Nitin Mukesh

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

— Maya Angelou

If you really want to succeed in life, then stop wishing and start doing.

— Anonymous

Transport is not a ministry the ambitious should accept: no transport minister has gone on to be prime minister.

— Justin Cartwright

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

— Gore Vidal

“i am tough and ambitious and if that makes me a bitch.. then so be it.”

— Madona Bouglione

I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.

— Johnny Depp

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

— Laurie Colwin

My parents are both professional athletes, so I always grew up in an ambitious way and I worked hard.

— Evan Fournier

“Go for your goal, be ambitious. Do what you dream, unlock your wishes.”

— Aaron David

“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.”

— Anonymous

India has the most technically ambitious and innovative nuclear energy program in the world,

— Siegfried Hecker

I was going to be the president of a television network. That's where I was going. I was that ambitious.

— Laurie David

I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

— Fergie

I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.

— Ronaldo