Ambitious Quotes · Page 19

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

— Graydon Carter

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

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

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

— Baruch Spinoza

I have never planned my acting career and was never ambitious.

— Mandira Bedi

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

— Molly Bloom

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

— Maurizio de Giovanni

Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact,…

— Robert Reich

We Should Never Allow Our Destiny To Be Dictated By Others Especially When They Are Not Ambitious Enough To Fulfill Their Own!

— Pacifiersucker

I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists,…

— James Elkins

I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will…

— Sigmar Gabriel

This is very ambitious, but I don't care. I'm just gonna go ahead and find Amelia Earhart. Every day that goes by,…

— Kristen Schaal

The idea that only the swaggering, all-knowing, and ruthlessly ambitious succeed is a lie. One that has discouraged so many people with…

— Ryan Holiday

I just wanted to be a performer. I was ambitious. I couldn't sing and I couldn't act. I could dance a little.…

— Zoe Ball

It's nice that established and emerging stars agree to appear in ambitious low-budget films. Such pro-bono work gives the movie a higher…

— Richard Corliss

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single…

— James Madison

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young…

— Kathryn Minshew

We're not unique in our family. We're more ambitious but we're not special. I'm not funnier than anyone else in my family;…

— David Sedaris

“Yes, she had seen Alex's temper flare over his disappointment with a lack of his own regiment to command, but she saw…

— Melissa de la Cruz

It is a sin to follow your horoscope because only God knows the future and He won't tell us. Also, we can…

— Christopher Durang

Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?"…

— Orson Scott Card

Universal health coverage is an ambitious goal, but it is one that can create a healthier and more equitable world for all…

— Tedros Adhanom

Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of…

— Henry Hazlitt

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

— Sadie Frost

“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

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

— Sandra Oh

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

— Glenn Ficarra

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

— Victoria Beckham

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Poonam Dhillon

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

— Jeb Bush

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

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

— Robson Green

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

— Konkona Sen Sharma