Ambitious Quotes · Page 15

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

— Clive Barker

'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

— Gary Ross

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

— Madonna Ciccone

“Life is a series of projects, with each more ambitious than the last.”

— Jen Fraser

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

— James Madison

I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for…

— Katherine Helmond

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

— Sheryl Sandberg

I grew up with champions around me, so I knew what it was like to be ambitious and to work very hard.

— Evan Fournier

All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the…

— Laurence Shames

There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious…

— Rachel Bloom

Setting San Francisco on a course to sustainability will require all of us to work in concert on a number of ambitious…

— London Breed

“I suppose I'm ambitious for something in spite of the fact that most things known as success don't inspire me to try…

— Robert McAlmon

We always set ambitious goals in our group, and I have found that if you set your mind to it, you can…

— Ajay Piramal

In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that…

— Karen Abbott

As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of…

— Sebastian Faulks

When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,…

— Charles Horton Cooley

“In the days when I was ambitious I worked out a very pretty little plan for conquering the whole earth and rearranging…

— Hjalmar Söderberg

Nowadays there's the taping of the boobs. The tanning has become pretty intense with these young ladies. The hair extensions have become…

— Shanna Moakler

But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are…

— Gertrude Stein

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become…

— George Washington

Does life continue beyond the door? The fulfilment of life is not annihilation - on the contrary - I am much more…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you want to be an actor, you must have total, ruthless commitment to your art. Don't be ambitious for fame or…

— Steven Berkoff

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce…

— Camille Paglia

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

— Harvey Weinstein

Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.

— Dwayne Johnson

An ambitious and beautifully produced fever dream. Don't wake me up, I want to stay in.

— Jonathan Hickman

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

— Ambrose Bierce

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.

— Helen Lawrenson

If you're not an ambitious footballer, you're in the wrong game, really.

— Harry Maguire

I am utterly ambitious. I'm ambitious for the sake of being so, too.

— Jess Phillips

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

— Edmund White

I know Pereira well. He's a very good coach who is ambitious.

— Hulk

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

— Jean Monnet

We can tend to be too ambitious when we're young, and a little blind.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

— Neneh Cherry

I might be a work in progress, but every day I get a little bit wiser, a little bit better, a little…

— Anonymous

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide...

— James Kavanaugh

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“For as a rule, the most ambitious horses are the highest mettled.”

— Jojo Moyes