Quotes about Ambitious

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build. Votes: 5

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Votes: 5

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. Votes: 4

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure. Votes: 4

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. Votes: 4

I've never been ambitious. Votes: 3

Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving. Votes: 3

I'm an entrepreneur. 'Ambitious' is my middle name. Votes: 3

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing, Votes: 3

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want. Votes: 3

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. Votes: 3

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces. Votes: 3

Ive always been ambitious to be very good at what I do. Votes: 3

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. Votes: 3

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him. Votes: 3

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. Votes: 3

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality. Votes: 3

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty. Votes: 3

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. Votes: 3

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous Votes: 3

Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be. Votes: 3

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. Votes: 3

The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors Votes: 3

President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless. Votes: 3

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. Votes: 3

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency. Votes: 3

Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book. Votes: 3

Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination. Votes: 3

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people. Votes: 3

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. Votes: 3

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. Votes: 3

In a lot of ways, if I were ambitious about anything - besides my career - I'd be ambitious about love. Ambitious in the sense that I really hope to find true love. Votes: 3

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel. Votes: 3

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. Votes: 3

Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society. Votes: 3

I've never been ambitious about recording. Votes: 1

I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard. Votes: 1

I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done. Votes: 1

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. Votes: 1

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. Votes: 1

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of. Votes: 1

Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him. Votes: 1

I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be. Votes: 1

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever. Votes: 1

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more. Votes: 1

I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still. Votes: 1

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero. Votes: 1

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing. Votes: 1

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water. Votes: 1

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. Votes: 1

Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families. Votes: 1

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it. Votes: 1

Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater. Votes: 1

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say. Votes: 1

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated. Votes: 1

My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie. Votes: 1

I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people. Votes: 1

I-just-got-off-the-bus-and-I'm-really-excited-and-ambitious-and-I-took-an-acting-class-in-Des-Moines-and-I-know-I-really-need-an-agent-and-I-want-one-NOW Votes: 0

I'm really ambitious. Votes: 0

You exist! Be ambitious! Votes: 0

Anybody can be ambitious. Votes: 0

All women are ambitious naturallie Votes: 0

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns. Votes: 0

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious. Votes: 0

I'm not really very ambitious. Votes: 0

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds. Votes: 0

[I am] loyal, ambitious and clever. Votes: 0

Be ambitious about things that last. Votes: 0

I suppose that I am ambitious. Votes: 0

I'm not very ambitious at all. Votes: 0

I've never been ambitious about recording Votes: 0

I'm not ambitious. Not a bit. Votes: 0

You can't be both happy and ambitious. Votes: 0

What great changes have not been ambitious? Votes: 0

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious. Votes: 0

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else. Votes: 0

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires. Votes: 0

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth. Votes: 0

I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been. Votes: 0

I'm much more ambitious than I'd like to admit. Votes: 0

No one has ever accused me of being ambitious. Votes: 0

No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. Votes: 0

The ambitious man has never found his true vocation... Votes: 0

It's the most ambitious power grab I've ever witnessed. Votes: 0

Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough. Votes: 0

Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism. Votes: 0

The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams. Votes: 0

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented. Votes: 0

Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations. Votes: 0

I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment. Votes: 0

... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar. Votes: 0

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate. Votes: 0

Keep your practice very simple and don't be too ambitious. Votes: 0

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it? Votes: 0

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty. Votes: 0

It's okay to be ambitious, it's okay to be over-prepared. Votes: 0

The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up. Votes: 0

I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age. Votes: 0

Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious. Votes: 0

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. Votes: 0

I think the problem with Western students is they're very ambitious. Votes: 0

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself. Votes: 0

The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with undercapitalization. Votes: 0

The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive. Votes: 0

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things. Votes: 0

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. Votes: 0

It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself ... Votes: 0

When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious. Votes: 0

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious. Votes: 0

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. Votes: 0

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves? Votes: 0

For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually. Votes: 0

Only women understand the sensitivity of the soul, men are ambitious and ruthless. Votes: 0

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not. Votes: 0

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day. Votes: 0

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything. Votes: 0

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. Votes: 0

I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve. Votes: 0

I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats. Votes: 0

Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go. Votes: 0

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself. Votes: 0

Keep striving for your goals, and remember that it's good to be ambitious. Votes: 0

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. Votes: 0

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work. Votes: 0

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity. Votes: 0

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working. Votes: 0

To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was. Votes: 0

Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble. Votes: 0

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. Votes: 0

I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions. Votes: 0

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide... Votes: 0

[ Marco Rubio] overly ambitious, too young, and I have better hair than he does. Votes: 0

India has the most technically ambitious and innovative nuclear energy program in the world, Votes: 0

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel. Votes: 0

I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. Votes: 0

Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it. Votes: 0

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night. Votes: 0

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people. Votes: 0

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles. Votes: 0

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. Votes: 0

Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do. Votes: 0

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way. Votes: 0

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform. Votes: 0

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old Votes: 0

The girls everyone considers the "prettiest" are not always the most interesting or ambitious people. Votes: 0

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money. Votes: 0

I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it. Votes: 0

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things. Votes: 0

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through. Votes: 0

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do. Votes: 0

If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement. Votes: 0

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy. Votes: 0

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof. Votes: 0

We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious! Votes: 0

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men. Votes: 0

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time. Votes: 0

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age. Votes: 0

An ambitious and beautifully produced fever dream. Don't wake me up, I want to stay in. Votes: 0

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop. Votes: 0

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent. Votes: 0

I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious. Votes: 0

Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams. Votes: 0

The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable? Votes: 0

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious. Votes: 0

I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay Votes: 0

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life. Votes: 0

The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs. Votes: 0

I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition. Votes: 0

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. Votes: 0

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change. Votes: 0

The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble. Votes: 0

Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him. Votes: 0

The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble. Votes: 0

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe. Votes: 0

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. Votes: 0

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means. Votes: 0

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality. Votes: 0

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. Votes: 0

It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind. Votes: 0

I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself. Votes: 0

Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium. Votes: 0

I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise. Votes: 0

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity. Votes: 0

I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in. Votes: 0

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race. Votes: 0

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious. Votes: 0

The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God. Votes: 0

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth. Votes: 0

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries. Votes: 0

Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. Votes: 0

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow. Votes: 0

There are four varieties in society "” the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. Votes: 0

It isn't that women are less ambitious, but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family. Votes: 0

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions. Votes: 0

We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach. Votes: 0

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie. Votes: 0

In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else. Votes: 0

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind. Votes: 0

I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed. Votes: 0

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality. Votes: 0

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic. Votes: 0

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. Votes: 0

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing. Votes: 0

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success. Votes: 0

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. Votes: 0

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were. Votes: 0

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz. Votes: 0

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best. Votes: 0

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. Votes: 0

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things. Votes: 0

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying. Votes: 0

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all. Votes: 0

My character in 'Casa de mi Padre' is an ambitious woman. I had never played that kind of character before. Votes: 0

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. Votes: 0

I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful. Votes: 0

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor. Votes: 0

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective. Votes: 0

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them. Votes: 0

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do. Votes: 0

I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. Votes: 0

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British. Votes: 0

Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get. Votes: 0

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother. Votes: 0

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular. Votes: 0

There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse. Votes: 0

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world Votes: 0

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer. Votes: 0

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. Votes: 0

It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient. Votes: 0

Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, [in terms of] believing in themselves. There is no need to apologise for being ambitious. Votes: 0

After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society. Votes: 0

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without. Votes: 0

I realize Im an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part. Votes: 0

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious. Votes: 0

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school. Votes: 0

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people. Votes: 0

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious. Votes: 0

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose. Votes: 0

No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand [television]. Votes: 0

I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money. Votes: 0

I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress. Votes: 0

To not dare is to have already lost. We should seek out ambitious, even unrealistic projects, because things only happen when we dream. Votes: 0

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous. Votes: 0

I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it. Votes: 0

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist. Votes: 0

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal. Votes: 0

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up. Votes: 0

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far. Votes: 0

I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts. Votes: 0

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment... Votes: 0

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious. Votes: 0

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. Votes: 0

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go. Votes: 0

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm. Votes: 0

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey. Votes: 0

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. Votes: 0

The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied. Votes: 0

I was young and ambitious and had the gift of dancing. I tried out for different things and the gift opened doors for me. Votes: 0

Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret. Votes: 0

The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan and Europe. Votes: 0

When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious. Votes: 0

I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success. Votes: 0

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world. Votes: 0

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious. Votes: 0

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention. Votes: 0

I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious. Votes: 0

I am not a career woman, and I would never have become one in normal life, because I am not ambitious enough for that. Votes: 0

I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes. Votes: 0

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it. Votes: 0

But haven't all ambitious people something of the monstrous about them? You, sir, for instance, if you will forgive me, are a little bit monstrous. Votes: 0

The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders. Votes: 0

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism. Votes: 0

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers. Votes: 0

I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn't that what attracts anyone? Votes: 0

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work. Votes: 0

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out. Votes: 0

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself. Votes: 0

I certainly want to be ambitious for women. I'm ambitious for myself. I think women can definitely find areas in which they want to excel. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't. Votes: 0

I don't have a type looks-wise, but all my exes have been funny, open-minded and ambitious. I can't stand men with no passion in life. Votes: 0

I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are. Votes: 0

Back when I was younger, Very ambitious, but often blinded by my hunger. Some say I dream too big, And my dream gon' take me under. Votes: 0

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself. Votes: 0

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. Votes: 0

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery Votes: 0

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. Votes: 0

Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society. Votes: 0

So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds. Votes: 0

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever. Votes: 0

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall. Votes: 0

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes. Votes: 0

Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ. Votes: 0

Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed. Votes: 0

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties. Votes: 0

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating. Votes: 0

Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time. Votes: 0

Ruby Stevens was determined, ambitious and tough. She had to fend for herself in so many ways as a child and always felt apart, on her own. Votes: 0

To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?" Votes: 0

Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties. Votes: 0

A person's first duty, a young person's at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value. Votes: 0

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try. Votes: 0

If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough. Votes: 0

Learn not to be too ambitious; not to expect if you have a 9-to-5 job and three kids, that you're likely to get buddhahood in one lifetime. Votes: 0

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it. Votes: 0

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need. Votes: 0

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess. Votes: 0

People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it. Votes: 0

We have now reached a level where we should be even more ambitious. We should focus on more tangible mechanisms and outcomes. Make BRICS a platform of Impact. Votes: 0

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. Votes: 0

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator? Votes: 0

It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse. Votes: 0

Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong, simple, natural sentences. Votes: 0

I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis. Votes: 0

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap. Votes: 0

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself. Votes: 0

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious. Votes: 0

I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more ambitious than I thought I was. Votes: 0

People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together. Votes: 0

I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will. Votes: 0

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock. Votes: 0

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious. Votes: 0

Everyone lives a self-centered life...whether its trivial like what's for breakfast, or more ambitious, like achieving some lofty goal, a person is constantly on her own mind. Votes: 0

Be more ambitious. Don't bunt. When you get a job to do a story or an ad, try and hit the ball out of the park every time Votes: 0

Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub. Votes: 0

Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms. Votes: 0

There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point. Votes: 0

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too. Votes: 0

Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs. Votes: 0

In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth. Votes: 0

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious. Votes: 0

Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess. Votes: 0

Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction. Votes: 0

To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy. Votes: 0

I have no interest or desire to be head of Fine Gael.... I am ambitious for my country and I always said I would love to sit at Cabinet... Votes: 0

This is very ambitious, but I don't care. I'm just gonna go ahead and find Amelia Earhart. Every day that goes by, I just fear the worst for her. Votes: 0

As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes. Votes: 0

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 to start off with. Votes: 0

I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me. Votes: 0

All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the best, most entertaining article that you can. Votes: 0

I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind. Votes: 0

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant. Votes: 0

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all. Votes: 0

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to Icarus of the Greek myth. Votes: 0

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles. Votes: 0

The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop. Votes: 0

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature. Votes: 0

We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means. Votes: 0

I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it's worth thinking critically about what the future will be. Votes: 0

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice. Votes: 0

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life! Votes: 0

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious. Votes: 0

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. Votes: 0

I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments... Votes: 0

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. Votes: 0

Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it. Votes: 0

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. Votes: 0

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity. Votes: 0

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous. Votes: 0

My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring. Votes: 0

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. Votes: 0

Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities. Votes: 0

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid. Votes: 0

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless. Votes: 0

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly Votes: 0

Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery. Votes: 0

I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices. Votes: 0

I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving. Votes: 0

My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were. Votes: 0

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious. Votes: 0

When you are starting out you're inspired by so many different things, you just want to be the best, man...and you're just so ambitious; your drive is just at a million! Votes: 0

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk. Votes: 0

I'm a forthright person and I am ambitious and I do hope that I get to do more, interesting work but not at the expense of me not being who I am. Votes: 0

Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive. Votes: 0

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad. Votes: 0

As a typically ambitious player, I did what all others of that ilk do: Everything I could do to gain advantage for my PCs and rise in level as rapidly as possible. Votes: 0

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box. Votes: 0

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be. Votes: 0

I'm in a happy place. I'm very at peace with who I am and what I'm doing and the people around me, so I think I'm probably most ambitious at where I am. Votes: 0

Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces. Votes: 0

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones. Votes: 0

You know, you don't need a leader to sort of administer something that's going very well. In fact, in one sense, an overly ambitious person in that circumstance can probably screw it up. Votes: 0

Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English. Votes: 0

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume. Votes: 0

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money. Votes: 0

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra. Votes: 0

The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you're shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible. Votes: 0

My energy level is very high ... how ambitious it all is depends on lots of different things. But pretty high energy level. I take on a lot of projects at the same time. Votes: 0

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra Votes: 0

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me. Votes: 0

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didnt want to be a singer. I didnt want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star. Votes: 0

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy. Votes: 0

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there. Votes: 0

Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time"“then you might not be as ambitious as you are. Votes: 0

I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week. Votes: 0

I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect. Votes: 0

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading. Votes: 0

The difference lies in the intention behind wanting money. Your reasons for why you want to create more money is typically why you're ambitious to get it. You're either genuinely ambitious or selfishly hungry. Votes: 0

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become. Votes: 0

A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change. Votes: 0

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written. Votes: 0

Now see, a lot of critics are saying Arnold can't get elected because he's just an ambitious guy with a famous name, who doesn't know anything about running the government. Didn't hurt George Bush. Votes: 0

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there. Votes: 0

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I. Votes: 0

It's just a given that women are working and are ambitious and have things they want to accomplish, and that stymies the amount of time they have to look around for a perfect guy. Votes: 0

A lot of ambitious code has been written into the law for those and we will have to see if it actually works, if we have another example of a big financial institution going bankrupt. Votes: 0

I'm very ambitious. I always want more after I get something I've dreamed about, so every day, I have a new target and a new path to follow. That's pretty much my law in life. Votes: 0

From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at. Votes: 0

Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry. Votes: 0

The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want. Votes: 0

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it. Votes: 0

I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer. Votes: 0

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth. Votes: 0

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up. Votes: 0

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. Votes: 0

I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway. Votes: 0