Ambitious Quotes · Page 12

“i am tough and ambitious and if that makes me a bitch.. then so be it.”

— Madona Bouglione

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

— Gore Vidal

Transport is not a ministry the ambitious should accept: no transport minister has gone on to be prime minister.

— Justin Cartwright

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

— Maya Angelou

If you really want to succeed in life, then stop wishing and start doing.

— Anonymous

I am simple and an open book. I don't like ambitious and materialistic people.

— Neil Nitin Mukesh

“Only women understand the sensitivity of the soul, men are ambitious and ruthless.”

— Aporva Kala

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

— Richard Branson

Xi Jinping is a very strong and ambitious leader who is looking to make a lot of changes in China. He is…

— Henry Paulson

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

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

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

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses…

— Joseph Addison

A lot of ambitious code has been written into the law for those and we will have to see if it actually…

— Robert F. Engle

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be…

— William Clark

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is…

— Fernando J. Corbato

Howard Hughes innovation was in the aviation field. His designs and spirit of experimentation was at the forefront. As far as his…

— Alden Ehrenreich

Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless…

— Claire Tomalin

Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be…

— James Madison

You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some…

— Lionel Shriver

In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre…

— Amadeo Bordiga

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

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

I was not ambitious as a child. My father encouraged me to enter competitions and contests, which became very much part of…

— Laura Pausini

The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

— Andy Taylor

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

— Candace Bushnell

“any mean, ambitious man,...counts his losses more than his gains.”

— Philippa Gregory

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

— Indira Gandhi

“Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.”

— John Lanchester

Taking on a leadership role doesn't mean that you only have to be personally ambitious.

— Jacinda Ardern

Shah Rukh has definitely been my inspiration. He is extremely focused in his work and is extremely ambitious.

— Gauri Khan

I've always been an ambitious girl and I make no qualms in admitting that.

— Nidhhi Agerwal

I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.

— Ronaldo

I was going to be the president of a television network. That's where I was going. I was that ambitious.

— Laurie David

India has the most technically ambitious and innovative nuclear energy program in the world,

— Siegfried Hecker

I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

— Fergie

“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.”

— Anonymous

“Go for your goal, be ambitious. Do what you dream, unlock your wishes.”

— Aaron David

My parents are both professional athletes, so I always grew up in an ambitious way and I worked hard.

— Evan Fournier

I have a lack of practical skills. I can't mend anything or do anything manly; I don't understand how anything works.

— Richard Herring