Ambitious Quotes · Page 19

I'm from a family of scarily ambitious women: pity my father.

— Maisie Peters

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

— Charles Duhigg

I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an…

— Mary Harron

I was really a very ambitious young girl when I started studying drama and performing art.

— Soni Razdan

You have be to ambitious, or otherwise, you go nowhere in life.

— Jean-Eric Vergne

I've never consciously done 'safe' commercial projects; luckily, they have done well.

— Vijay Sethupathi

Unlike Fred and Paddy, I don't get many offers of work other than 'Top Gear,' because I'm crap at everything else.

— Chris Harris

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

— James Young

I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster…

— Pablo Schreiber

I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating…

— James Frey

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts … We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to…

— Winston Churchill

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader.…

— Susan Bysiewicz

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe…

— Jim Butcher

I keep getting more and more ambitious. Over the years, to some degree, in some areas, I feel I've grown. In some…

— Woody Allen

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy.…

— Ambrose Bierce

I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy…

— Bat for Lashes

“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

“I have no desire to be a politician. I don’t want to lead anyone. I have no practical ego. I am not…

— Oscar Zeta Acosta

I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating.…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

You want a woman who shares your belief and your faith because that is usually your core. So, you want a woman…

— Tony Gaskins

Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased…

— Julian Baggini

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

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

— John Updike

We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

— Anonymous

In life you have to be ambitious, you have to look forward all the time.

— Gianfranco Zola

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

— Hippolyte Taine

I want to do everything, and I don't think that's too ambitious.

— Megan Hilty

I feel as if I'm getting better all the time. At the same time, though, I'm ambitious.

— John McGinn

I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious.

— Christian Bale

“The definition of success constantly evolves for the truly ambitious.”

— Gordon Highland

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.

— Paul Graham

“Never give up on your dreams, because you never know which is destined to manifest.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

— Horace

“As ambitious women, we need to tell one another our stories. We need to tell the truth about our lives.”

— Debra Condren

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

Im tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

— Babloo

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

— Julia Ward Howe

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing,

— Guy Kawasaki

“It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.”

— Joseph Epstein