Ambitious Quotes · Page 17

Considering all the amazing experiences Ive had in my career, Im useless when it comes to general life skills.

— Robson Green

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

— Anonymous

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

— Katy Perry

[ Marco Rubio] overly ambitious, too young, and I have better hair than he does.

— Jeb Bush

I have never been ambitious and have always gone with the flow.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a…

— Hark-Joon Lee

Compromise disappoints those who buy into the most ambitious and simplistic populist slogans.

— Gavin Esler

When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious.

— Glenn Ficarra

I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

— James D'arcy

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too…

— Ethan Hawke

“A person of large dreams does not allow other people’s opinion to damper his or her zestfulness. Overcoming fear of making an…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of…

— Sarah Emma Edmonds

There's nothing wrong with women saying that we can be ambitious and that we can want the same things that men have…

— Anna Gunn

I was young and ambitious and had the gift of dancing. I tried out for different things and the gift opened doors…

— Shonlock

I'm incredibly ambitious, but I feel I've got a fantastic career, and I love the anonymity. I love that no one knows…

— Essie Davis

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

— Zaha Hadid

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become…

— George Washington

But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are…

— Gertrude Stein

Nowadays there's the taping of the boobs. The tanning has become pretty intense with these young ladies. The hair extensions have become…

— Shanna Moakler

“In the days when I was ambitious I worked out a very pretty little plan for conquering the whole earth and rearranging…

— Hjalmar Söderberg

A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,…

— Charles Horton Cooley

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of…

— Arundhati Roy

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is…

— Arundhati Roy

I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the…

— John Hurt

Koreans are ambitious, man. It means a lot to my parents that I do the work that I do and it has…

— Sandra Oh

“As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”

— William Shakespeare

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

— Victoria Beckham

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

— Barbra Streisand

I've always been very ambitious and very determined and very compassionate at the same time.

— Molly Bloom

I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.

— Sadie Frost

“I dream of living, you see. That's all, just living. And that's the most ambitious dream there is.”

— Maurizio de Giovanni

“Don't give up. As you work to achieve your most ambitious goals, push yourself to keep moving forward.”

— M. Sheheryar Naseer

“But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it.”

— Earl of Chesterfield

“It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.”

— Sanhita Baruah

“What's an ambitious man but a player, Borgia—a player on a grand scale and the world his card game?”

— Hella S. Haasse

If I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

— Madonna

Hard work, honesty, and faith in god can get you anywhere you want in life.

— Chanel Dudley

I'm not ambitious, I never have been; it's just not in my DNA.

— George Stroumboulopoulos

I am not a career woman, and I would never have become one in normal life, because I am not ambitious enough…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

— Graydon Carter