Ambitious Quotes · Page 17

We need to be self-confident, ambitious, and relentlessly internationalist in our outlook.

— Chris Grayling

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

— Ambrose Bierce

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

— Elizabeth I

“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't feel like I need or want to apologize for feeling ambitious.

— Asher Keddie

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

— Jil Sander

I'm ambitious in a good way. I've never wanted to settle as long as I've thought there's more.

— Ana de Armas

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

— Soha Ali Khan

Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept…

— Bruce Lee

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The…

— Vincent Gallo

I still want to play for my country, I'm still ambitious. But things like that are out of my control so I'll…

— Scott Sinclair

I've become good friends with Lena Dunham, and the thing I had in common with Lena when I was 24 is I…

— Mike Birbiglia

“There are fewer ambitious individuals in the world today than individuals who believe they are morally obliged to be ambitious.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has…

— John Milius

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

— Anna Julia Cooper

The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people…

— Mark Shields

I never heard the expression, "A strong man," unless somebody was in the gym lifting a heavy barbell. Why is there a…

— Megan Griffiths

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to…

— James Kavanaugh

I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far…

— Robert Plant

I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go…

— Jessica Pare

Cinema is haute couture or, if that's a little too ambitious, at least it should approach that standard. Pathe Plus is just…

— Jerome Seydoux

“In a society riven into ‘us’ and ‘them’, an ambitious young person might well want to be one of the group in…

— Anna Funder

Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life,…

— Daniel Webster

The difference between who you ARE and who you WANT TO BE is the work you put in.

— Anonymous

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

I don't like the word 'feminist.' I don't like the word 'ambitious.' I do like the word 'anti-establishment.'

— Rei Kawakubo

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

'The Message' is one of my most ambitious projects in terms of content and story.

— Rahul Roy

Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.

— Michael Douglas

I am not an ambitious person and I love to go with the flow.

— Biju Menon

You're always looking to go one step further and I'm an ambitious boy.

— John McGinn

Why don't women say what they want, why wait to be asked? Do women intuit that it is unacceptable to appear ambitious?

— Prue Leith

I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

— Edward Furlong

I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.

— Amy Winehouse

“Successful givers, it turns out, are just as ambitious as takers and matchers.”

— Adam M. Grant

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

— Anonymous

Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

— Vaclav Klaus

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be…

— Hugh Prather

I wanted success. I was ambitious. I didn't leave United to see out my career picking up wages.

— Phil Neville