Ambitious Quotes · Page 17

I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition.

— Caroline Lucas

I am proud that Ireland is playing its part to drive an ambitious and comprehensive agreement at COP21.

— Enda Kenny

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

— Simon Cowell

I think that every player in every team must have an ambitious mind.

— Manuel Pellegrini

I am ambitious, but don't think that I'm in a race where I have to run to prove myself or outdo anyone.

— Amrita Rao

I'm not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But I was a super ambitious student growing up.

— Simone Giertz

My character in 'Casa de mi Padre' is an ambitious woman. I had never played that kind of character before.

— Genesis Rodriguez

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

— Claude Monet

The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very…

— Bat for Lashes

I want to collect the entire range of scientific and educational literature and make it accessible to the whole world. Just like…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the…

— Gareth Bale

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An…

— Young Jeezy

Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into;…

— Bill Ayers

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make…

— Judith Viorst

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a…

— Elizabeth Debicki

I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I…

— Eva Mendes

It's always been the same from a long time ago, it's people with promises and people dangling carrots and when you're young…

— Lisa Stansfield

Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful,…

— Gretchen Rubin

A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing…

— Milton Friedman

“Start thinking like a radical pragmatist: still ambitious, aggressive, and rooted in ideals, but also imminently practical and guided by the possible.…

— Anonymous

When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and…

— Stephen King

There are ways of staying under the radar here, and they're effective to a degree. But if you're an ambitious person and…

— Killian Scott

I think that the word 'ambitious' is still used in a derogatory way when it comes to women, in a way that…

— Victoria Derbyshire

“those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious”

— Spinoza

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

— William Penn

“You have to be enthusiastic enough to do what is required for achieving your dreams and goals.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your…

— Ban Ki-moon

I realize I'm an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.

— Rob Brown

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

— Will Rogers

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

— Judi Dench

“The ambitious strive to be well known; the enlightened strive to be worth knowing.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I was ambitious. I was happy to work six, seven days a week and give more than what was expected.

— Davina McCall

I thought I was lacking because I wasn't particularly ambitious.

— Tara Fitzgerald

People tell me I'm very ambitious right now. But I just have a lot of stories in my head, and why can't…

— Allison Schroeder

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

— Horace Walpole

I'm a very ambitious girl. I'll go wherever there is a good part.

— Katie McGrath

As Madonna once said, I'm tough, I'm ambitious and if that makes me a bitch, that's what I am

— Madonna

I want to win trophies, even the Champions League. You have to be ambitious.

— Declan Rice

I love playing a smart, ambitious, talented woman. Who doesn't? That's really fun for me.

— Katherine Heigl