Ambitious Quotes · Page 16

You're always looking to go one step further and I'm an ambitious boy.

— John McGinn

I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

— Edward Furlong

I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.

— Amy Winehouse

I'm ambitious in a good way. I've never wanted to settle as long as I've thought there's more.

— Ana de Armas

The difference between who you ARE and who you WANT TO BE is the work you put in.

— Anonymous

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

— Soha Ali Khan

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

I don't like the word 'feminist.' I don't like the word 'ambitious.' I do like the word 'anti-establishment.'

— Rei Kawakubo

I always felt that, for me, as a woman, I always had to wait around. In all other arenas, I was ambitious…

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going…

— Michael B. Jordan

Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in…

— Eric Foner

Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at…

— Morrie Schwartz

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be…

— Russell Baker

Besides being one of the most ambitious projects I have worked on, 'Mercury' has also helped me enhance my skills as a…

— Karthik Subbaraj

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked…

— Robert Boyle

I don't need to be famous. I'm not that ambitious. At this point, if I'm not sucked in, I'm never going to…

— Jessica Alba

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is…

— Ayn Rand

When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or…

— Criss Jami

I combine aspects of fashion, comedy, sculpture, video, painting all kind of in one multimedia sort of curriculum. New York is what…

— Chloe Wise

"The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to…

— Alan Lightman

My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at…

— Lawrence Hargrave

And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever…

— Herman Melville

We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that…

— Nora Ephron

Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come…

— Stacy Schiff

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

'The Message' is one of my most ambitious projects in terms of content and story.

— Rahul Roy

I wanted success. I was ambitious. I didn't leave United to see out my career picking up wages.

— Phil Neville

If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go…

— Keeley Hawes

“Successful givers, it turns out, are just as ambitious as takers and matchers.”

— Adam M. Grant

I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

— Anonymous

Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

— Vaclav Klaus

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be…

— Hugh Prather

British Columbia's got one of the most ambitious climate change plans in North America.

— Jagmeet Singh

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

— Robert Towne

Be more ambitious. Do your homework. There's no easy way around this.

— Anthony McCarten

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

— Martha Wainwright

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself.

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

— John C. Maxwell

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

— Ayn Rand

In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.

— Mason Cooley