Ambitious Quotes · Page 13

It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.

— Anonymous

Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit…

— John Adams

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you…

— Larry Page

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to…

— John Otway

Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position,…

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

[I am] loyal, ambitious and clever.

— Mike Holloway

I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want…

— Kate Moss

I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a…

— George H. W. Bush

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

— Barbra Streisand

Bank of America is the story of some of the most ambitious, aggressive bank builders on the face of the planet.

— Charles Duhigg

'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy…

— Jane Smiley

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

— Alexander Hamilton

Coaching England is a huge job, and no ambitious coach would rule himself out completely.

— Mickey Arthur

I'm not steely ambitious.

— Helen Baxendale

People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses,…

— David Byrne

The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan…

— Paul Singer

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

— Laurie David

How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and…

— Gail Collins

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

— Stuart Woods

I am an ambitious person and I like a sense of challenge.

— Laura Whitmore

Historically, Juve are a very ambitious club.

— David Trezeguet

“Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, win their love or…

— Shannon L. Alder

Arsene Wenger is an ambitious manager, and he knows deep in his heart that he needs five world-class players to compete among…

— Patrick Vieira