Ambitious Quotes

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

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

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

Maniacal self-promoter …. Makes Machiavelli look like a simple, straightforward kinda guy.

A rigid, fanatic, ambitious, selfishly partisan and sectional turncoat with too much genius and too little common sense, who will either die a traitor or a madman.

Scott Ritter is a very well-known archetype of a certain U.S. military officer. Very hard talking, very ambitious, zealous, and completely consumed with carrying out his mission. He's a guy who, throughout his career, I would say, did not break rules, but he worked around road blocks.

[President John F.] Kennedy must be a strange character—obstinate, sensitive, ruthless and highly sexed.

I'm here to let everyone know I'm taking bigger fights and I'm not afraid on taking the bigger challenges.

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life.

When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.

I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.

We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.

I'm just one of those guys that, when I'm going in, I'm going all-in. That's kind of the way you've got to be in this business that I'm in.

Definitely, I have a New York personality.

Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

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

One thing I get from competitive sports is that I am fiercely ambitious.

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

I've always been a mellow guy. I'm just more competitive when I'm on the floor.

A somewhat greasy bald-headed man with his mouth open.... What animated him from end to end of his grotesque career was simply ambition—the ambition of a common man to get his hand upon the collar of his superiors, or, failing that, to get his thumb into their eyes.

I am very selfish when it comes to work, and I only care about work.

I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work. At 12 I was emancipated from my parents so I could sign my first record deal. I think I was born working!

I am motivated and relish the pressure.