Ambitious Quotes · Page 14

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

— Charles Kuralt

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really…

— Henry Rollins

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

— Diablo Cody

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

— William Shakespeare

“To become a better you, never let the attitude of pride linger around your ambitions.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

— William Shakespeare

Be Ambitious, But Still Aim For A Simple Life. Be Determined, But Yet Learn To Compromise...

— Pacifiersucker

“Now a young adult, he was ambitious, thorough and demanding when it came to the products he sold.”

— Tibor Michaels

The one thing we have that the other parties do not have is a political integrity. No one thinks you join the…

— Caroline Lucas

I think of myself as an excellent actress with a lot to offer, but I'm not aggressive; I'm not ambitious. In fact,…

— Sondra Locke

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

— Zaha Hadid

Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective…

— Alexander Zinoviev

I would say that in the 1990s, I don't think the environment was enough to make anyone ambitious and aspirational. It was…

— Ronnie Screwvala

Make sure it is not too diverse or spread out so people don't know where to go or what to do. So…

— Amy Ziering

I've got ambitions. I've always been very ambitious. But I think there's something nice about not saying all of my dreams, in…

— Sigrid

I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make…

— Anonymous

John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are…

— John Updike

Green is not just about renewable energy. It's also about creating a new direction for the whole economy. This requires government to…

— Mariana Mazzucato

Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative…

— Katie Kitamura

Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were…

— Edgar Wright

For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property…

— Polybius

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary…

— Charles Dickens

We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I'm an ambitious player who wants success and I want to win every game in every competition we're in.

— Bruno Fernandes

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

— Rodrigo Rato

The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.

— Louis Kronenberger

If I want something, I will get it. I am the most ambitious person you have ever met.

— Anastasia Soare

Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.

— Clive Barker

Thank you to every person who has ever told me I can't. You are just another reason I will.

— Anonymous

“I'm Tough, I'm Ambitious, and I Know exactly what I Want. If that makes me a B.I.T.C.H., okay.”

— Madonna

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

— Diane Cilento

I promise I've been thinking before yall, I barely get tired Im rarely inspired.

— Drake

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

— Stuart Woods

For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Even by Silicon Valley standards, PayPal's vision was massively ambitious.

— Reid Hoffman

Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.

— Jean Monnet

I'm not much of a gardener really. I'm hopeless, so I don't really get involved with it that much.

— George Clarke

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

— Bill Bryson

The harder you work during peace, the less you bleed during war.

— Brandon Jennings