Ambitious Quotes · Page 19

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

— Simone Giertz

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

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

— Tal Ben-Shahar

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

I would never have left Everton for anybody but an ambitious football club. And I thought Manchester United would have given me…

— David Moyes

My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go…

— Clive Davis

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to…

— Akhenaton

I chose to come to Wrexham rather than staying higher because I want to do well, I want to test myself, I…

— Paul Mullin

Both Aishwaryaa and Soundarya are talented and ambitious. They are both daughters of the Superstar and have great command over their craft.

— Dhanush

I knew I was ambitious; I knew I was passionate and that I wanted to change the world in some shape or…

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will…

— Francis Quarles

We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition…

— Rajneesh

Everybody I knew who was really ambitious and kind of annoying wanted to move to New York. I like it here but…

— Urs Fischer

I just want to say one thing about the '70s. Enough with this purer, "It was a better time," business. Every time…

— Jerry Saltz

I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of…

— Anonymous

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

You know, women in Hollywood, we don't get action franchises and superheroes. The rom-coms that made Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and Reese…

— Elizabeth Banks

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was…

— Leo Tolstoy

Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of…

— Erwin Rommel

When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for…

— Rajneesh

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

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

There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

— Hippolyte Taine

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

— Terry Gilliam

Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.

— Sarita Choudhury

“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

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

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