Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re… — Eric Barker Copy Share Image
There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
My career is very important and I'm pretty ambitious. Marriage is not a priority, not the focus of my existence. Of course,… — Megan Gallagher Copy Share Image
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I had this project called 'Ruin' in my head for six years or so. This really big, really ambitious sci-fi thing. It's… — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man… — John Donne Copy Share Image
If Reagan and John Paul II were linked by anything, it was a grand, ambitious, and generous idea of Western political civilization,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that...… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I'm an ambitious person. I mean, if I did that... I would self-destruct, in the sense that the decadence would be too… — James Packer Copy Share Image
Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace: I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re dumb. This is all you… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
You know, you don't need a leader to sort of administer something that's going very well. In fact, in one sense, an… — Louis V. Gerstner, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty,… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm very much like the person I am on the show. I'm certainly not as ambitious; no, that's not… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a… — Jenna Dewan Copy Share Image
I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did… — Michael Learned Copy Share Image
The ideal intern is committed, creative, organized, ambitious, independent, and able to crack a smile, whether meeting a celebrity or folding socks. — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious,… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is… — Melanie Klein Copy Share Image
You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
I feel Kavya is a reflection of me in more ways than one. She is strong-willed yet vulnerable. She is ambitious yet… — Madalsa Sharma Copy Share Image
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
I am an ambitious person. In the West, being ambitious isn't a bad thing. You work hard and you have a purpose… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me… — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
Xi Jinping is a very strong and ambitious leader who is looking to make a lot of changes in China. He is… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
