Ambitious Quotes · Page 11

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

— Simone Giertz

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

— Enda Kenny

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

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Caroline Lucas

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

— John C. Maxwell

One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had…

— Art Spiegelman

I started thinking of myself as an ambitious person when I graduated college. But when I hear stories about myself as a…

— Michelle Buteau

I've always been very ambitious, and I always knew that I wanted something else. Cuba was a good start, but I knew…

— Ana de Armas

It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Ambitious of vision and swooping of camera, 'I, Frankenstein' is no 'I, Robot,' let alone 'I, Claudius,' but it's definitely watchable on…

— Richard Corliss

“Yet, when M. Paul sneered at me, I wanted to possess them more fully; his injustice stirred in me ambitious wishes—it imparted…

— Charlotte Brontë

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober…

— Robert Menzies

I have no ambition for what society says is important as far as things like money, and all that kind of stuff.…

— Daniel Bryan

I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not…

— William Shakespeare

“I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to…

— William Shakespeare

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us…

— Banksy

Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I…

— Kam Williams

Obviously I want to play as high as I can, to test me ability. I hope I can keep climbing the leagues…

— Paul Mullin

We have resorted to every means to win back the position that Adam lost. We have tried through education, through philosophy, through…

— Billy Graham

My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that…

— Garrison Keillor

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

— Ayn Rand

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

— Tal Ben-Shahar

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

— Martha Wainwright

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

— Anthony McCarten

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

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

— Stacey Abrams

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

Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.

— Peter Sarsgaard

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

— Clare Balding

Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.

— Joe Rogan

If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine.

— Barry Barish

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

— Ringo Starr

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

— Laurie Colwin

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

— Johnny Depp