Ambitious Quotes · Page 16

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Diablo Cody

“An ambitious woman never takes seriously men's compliments.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isnt an option. Its a necessity.

— Anonymous

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the…

— Melissa Leo

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

— Brandon Flowers

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

— Michael J. Fox

Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without…

— Charles Darwin

I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more…

— Britta Phillips

I think the music I make is true to my life. A lot of people can relate to it. It is real.…

— Ashley Thomas

Leicester have been unbelievable to me, and I'm really happy there, but I'm also an ambitious player, and everyone wants to play…

— Harry Maguire

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like…

— Jesse Metcalfe

“I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who…

— Steve Maraboli

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as…

— Joseph Addison

I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It…

— Terry Crews

Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not…

— James C. Collins

I do not say that being ambitious or adventurous is wrong. One should take into account his or her family, environment, society,…

— T Joseph Benziger

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different…

— Thomas Moore

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

In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain…

— Ernest Starling

Once the rudiments of loyalty are in place, the ambitious have been inclined to work with them to promote their own political…

— Michael Waller

Does life continue beyond the door? The fulfilment of life is not annihilation - on the contrary - I am much more…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

— Alan Hansen

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

— Arthur Keith

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

— Christopher Walken

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

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive.

— Scott Belsky

If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.

— Laszlo Bock

I surrounded myself with a lot of different creative people and ambitious people.

— Justine Skye

“Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.”

— Ryan Lilly

Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.

— Sam Altman

I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.

— Cameron Russell

I am ambitious; I want to play in the Champions League or in the Europa League.

— Marouane Fellaini

The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with undercapitalization.

— Geoffrey Moore

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

— Catherine Keener

Always put your fears behind you and your dreams in front of you.

— Anonymous

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable…

— Henry Rollins

I wasn't overtly ambitious, or tried to get films by hook or crook. I always did things at my own pace.

— Poonam Dhillon