Ambitious Quotes

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.

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

I'm really ambitious.

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

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.

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

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

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.

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.

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.

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

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

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.

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

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

The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I'm very ambitious, despite all the challenges I face in the streets.

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.

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

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

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

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

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.