Top 342 Ambitious Quotes

Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns are the main event of WrestleMania 34 because neither one is content, and both are ambitious enough to push the limits of what is now considered their greatest moment, and that’s the point that neither one will ever accept. They will never accept the idea that they’ve peaked as individuals.

To be ambitious, you have to have big players, big stars.

I understood early on that I was not the best-looking girl in the room. But I knew my advantage was a hard work ethic and I was ambitious: I knew I could be a great model.

I’d like to win everything; I’m an ambitious guy.

Can you give someone a bad name for wanting to be ambitious? For wanting to move onto bigger things? That person is ambitious, that person wants to do stuff, that person wants to move on with his life.

If you are a woman with this full life who is incredibly ambitious like I am, you have to find somebody who is into it, respects it, encourages it, and celebrates it because he loves that about you. Otherwise, you’re going to feel like you’re muting yourself.

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.

But I do love working for Boris because he never stops. He’s always fizzing with good ideas, and when you are looking after culture, that is important. He’s quite ambitious for London.

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.

I am ambitious and I want to play as much as possible.

Especially in our society, for a woman to be ambitious and controlling, that’s a negative. Whereas me as a person, I don’t think that’s negative. If I wasn’t ambitious and controlling to a certain extent, I wouldn’t be where I am today.

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.

I’d like my man to be very simple yet highly ambitious, one who chooses to live with real integrity and humanity.

If a man is secure enough to allow his partner to go out and express herself, and if he does not feel as ambitious as her, he can be a homemaker also. There is nothing wrong with it.

I’m belligerent rather than ambitious.

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.

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.

We were ambitious. The several levels of Dante’s inferno that we had to go through emotionally within the band to be able to stick to it, was crazy. That’s ambition.

People ask me, ‘Are you worried you’re going to be typecast as a John Locke type of guy?’ I say he’s the perfect guy to be typecast as! He’s vulnerable and ambitious and sort of unstable. It was a good actor’s role.

Sure, there were hopes that Constellation’s systems could later be adapted to support more ambitious goals. But Apollo had those hopes, too. It didn’t work in 1970, and it wasn’t going to work in 2020.

I am not a very ambitious person.

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.

Detroit’s a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you’ve got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you’re going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.

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 was terribly ambitious: I was always thinking why wasn’t I in the West End. I really wasted my whole youth.

‘Angels in America’ – which is composed of two three-hour plays, ‘Millennium Approaches’ and ‘Perestroika’ – proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams’s ‘The Glass Menagerie.’

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

There’s a negative connotation to ambitious women, and I think that we should be able to be proud of being ambitious and not shy away from that, if that… is what you want to do.

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they’re not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile.

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

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

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

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

I was always very ambitious from a young age.

Anne Boleyn isn’t a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn’t a people pleaser. She’s ambitious and manipulative, but she’s honest. I’m biased, but I don’t think a woman who has said ‘no’ to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music, and to paint when I feel like it.

It was nice doing my own Joy Division book to be able to put forward the fact that Ian was actually quite a nice guy and very hardworking, ambitious and loyal. But the thing was, he was battling such a dreadful illness in an era when they really didn’t know how to treat it.

I am simple and an open book. I don’t like ambitious and materialistic people.

I’m not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

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.

Never give up. People will always discount you, and you’ll always get rejected. But set your sights high. Be boldly ambitious. Be relentless and never give up.

I don’t think I’m very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

I suppose that I am ambitious.

Palantir owes much of its success to the amazing talent of the first 30-40 technologists who joined the company, as well as to the internal leadership that helped motivate this core group to achieve its ambitious goals and to continue to attract extraordinary people.

When I was growing up, there were a few musicians who would have regular gigs at restaurants, and I always thought it was so cool and unexpected how they would spontaneously perform. Being the ambitious kid that I was, I got into it and really studied it. I was so inspired by it.

I’ve always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

In the ’70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

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

I’m ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

In Cameroon, kids have many problems. They think everything is lost before they are born. It seems like they are not allowed to dream. They are not allowed to be ambitious. They just accept being the victim of their life.

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

The Village Voice gave me an outlet. They encouraged writers to publish idiosyncratic, intellectually ambitious journalism in voices that ranged from demonic to highfalutin. And they paid me well once the magazine was unionized. Getting paid is motivational.

You have be to ambitious, or otherwise, you go nowhere in life.

I’ve never been ambitious about recording.

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

I’ve become good friends with Lena Dunham, and the thing I had in common with Lena when I was 24 is I was as ambitious as she was. What we don’t have in common is that I was not as talented. My voice was not as clearly defined.

We have ambitious goals for the future, and I know we will achieve them, in part, by working closely with our exceptional extended team.