Ambitious Quotes · Page 10

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my…

— Jim Dine

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

— Chris Evert

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

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

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

— Molly Bloom

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

— Hella S. Haasse

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

— William Osler

I actually blame Mary Kate and Ashley for making me such an ambitious child, because they really had it all and I…

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are…

— Doug Casey

I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for…

— Little Simz

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to…

— Srikumar Rao

I'm very ambitious. I'm the kind of person who still feels as if they could win an Oscar. Albeit, with no evidence…

— Rose Matafeo

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended…

— David Kay

Something economically changed. It used to be that you needed 20 million people to watch a TV show for it to be…

— Judd Apatow

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it…

— Robert Solow

“If you want to live and you want to prosper, you’ve got to be ambitious. You’ve got to be ready to sacrifice…

— Roy Thomson

The Afghan government is much better informed, much more intrusive and ambitious than I had guessed. There are amazing craftsmen in Kabul…

— Rory Stewart

We have a pretty ambitious goal for the world. What we think will make the Web better. What we think will make…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a concept around her…

— Marina and the Diamonds

People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the…

— Ken Liu

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very…

— Jo Nesbo

“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

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

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

— Barbra Streisand

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

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

— Robson Green

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

— Poonam Dhillon

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

— Gavin Esler

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