Ambitious Quotes

500 quotes by 417 authors

Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very… — Maripol
We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we… — Ranbir Kapoor
I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook. — Laurie Colwin
I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I… — Barbara Ehrenreich
From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case… — Kim Young-ha
After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I… — Marshall Herskovitz
I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything. — Neneh Cherry
In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other… — John Eisenhower
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical,… — Claire Tomalin
Bank of America is the story of some of the most ambitious, aggressive bank builders on the face of the planet. — Charles Duhigg
When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller… — Jim Butcher
People ask why I always play crazy people and free spirits. I guess it is because I like to have fun. But I am more… — Lucy Punch
Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through… — Tom Cotton
Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy. — Michael Douglas
For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors,… — Polybius
I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published. — Edmund White
The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan and Europe. — Paul Singer
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention. — Sophie Hannah
When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious. — Glenn Ficarra
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. — Jean de la Bruyere

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