Ambitious Quotes · Page 18

If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go…

— Keeley Hawes

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

— John C. Maxwell

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

— Ayn Rand

In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.

— Mason Cooley

I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition.

— Caroline Lucas

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

— Simon Cowell

I am proud that Ireland is playing its part to drive an ambitious and comprehensive agreement at COP21.

— Enda Kenny

I am ambitious, but don't think that I'm in a race where I have to run to prove myself or outdo anyone.

— Amrita Rao

Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals…

— Chris Sharma

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you…

— Larry Page

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your…

— Mindy Kaling

I've always been really ambitious, whatever I do. At school, I always wanted to be the best in the class - no,…

— Sophia Myles

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didn't want to be a singer. I didn't…

— Polly Bergen

PSG is an ambitious club that wants to be the best in the world. So you have to win all the competitions…

— Kylian Mbappe

Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you…

— Natalie Massenet

People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and…

— Perry Como

We must be optimistic about the future because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we are creative and ambitious, intelligent machines will liberate…

— Garry Kasparov

All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and…

— Rajneesh

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

— Marina Warner

In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type…

— Robert Darnton

I am very ambitious and have set goals for myself. I really don't keep a tab on what my contemporaries are doing.…

— Sonam Kapoor

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving…

— Aristotle

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I think that every player in every team must have an ambitious mind.

— Manuel Pellegrini

I'm not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But I was a super ambitious student growing up.

— Simone Giertz

Be more ambitious. Do your homework. There's no easy way around this.

— Anthony McCarten

British Columbia's got one of the most ambitious climate change plans in North America.

— Jagmeet Singh

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

— Robert Towne

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

— Martha Wainwright

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself.

— Tal Ben-Shahar

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

— Clare Balding

Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.

— Peter Sarsgaard

I was terribly ambitious: I was always thinking why wasn't I in the West End. I really wasted my whole youth.

— Sheila Hancock

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Educating bold and ambitious children from cradle to career stands as a clear and foundational goal for Georgia.

— Stacey Abrams

If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine.

— Barry Barish

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

— Ringo Starr

Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.

— Joe Rogan

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

— Gore Vidal