Ambitious Quotes · Page 24

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the…

— William Osler

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much…

— Saul Leiter

I'm still fiercely ambitious.

— Alexei Sayle

My mom was terrific. I described my mom once. If fear was a color, she was color blind. Nothing frightened her. If…

— Les Wexner

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

— Reid Hoffman

One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and…

— Marina Warner

I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I…

— Augusten Burroughs

The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious…

— Jeanine Tesori

I'm very ambitious and I'm not shy about it.

— Fred VanVleet

I grew up with champions around me, so I knew what it was like to be ambitious and to work very hard.

— Evan Fournier

Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious,…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

You can't be both happy and ambitious.

— J.A. Konrath

One has to be ambitious to start writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted…

— Matt Dillon

A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something…

— Warren Berger

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

— George Washington

Keep your practice very simple and don't be too ambitious.

— Tenzin Palmo

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

— Diane Cilento

Late summer is perfect for classic mysteries - think of Raymond Chandler's hot Santa Anas and Agatha Christie's Mediterranean resorts - while…

— Michael Dirda

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes…

— Theodor Herzl

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

— Soni Razdan

I would say that the one incredible thing that Karachi has going for it is the unabated supply of new migrants that…

— Steve Inskeep

I'm not a particularly ambitious person.

— Russell Howard

I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New…

— Lesley Hazleton

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened…

— Alain de Botton