Top 342 Ambitious Quotes

I’m not very ambitious at all.
Amy Winehouse
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.
Elizabeth Gilbert
There’s a part of me that’s ambitious.
Shura
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.
Pablo Schreiber
It’s seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren’t ambitious? We wouldn’t have that gift we have from them.
Brandon Flowers
A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.
Stuart Woods
Our parents were really, really grounded people but als

Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
Isaac Hanson
The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking person without a huge amount of resources has a pretty good shot, in the end, of beating out a less smart, less ambitious, less hardworking rich person.
Adam Davidson
I’m deeply ambitious and I always have been.
Hayley Atwell
What’s wrong with trying hard and showing up and being good at your job? We really need to look at ourselves and say we need to reevaluate this. We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion – it’s actually an okay thing. It’s okay to be ambitious; it’s okay to be over-prepared.
Jessica Chastain
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.
David Brainerd
Why don’t women say what they want, why wait to be asked? Do women intuit that it is unacceptable to appear ambitious?
Prue Leith
Anybody can be ambitious.
Chris Hughes
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.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
If you want to be an actor, you must have total, ruthless commitment to your art. Don’t be ambitious for fame or TV or movies. Art is a jealous mistress and will brook no competitors. Study all the time. Never stop reading. Never stop learning speeches. It will fill you up – define and refine you.
Steven Berkoff
I am a very ambitious person.
Wilfried Zaha
In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.
Christina Hoff Sommers
I’m very ambitious when it comes to business.
Alexis Ren
Set ambitious goals and don’t be afraid to declare and aim for them. You need to know where you want to go in order to get there. It is important to have a destination in mind.
Denise Morrison
I am not very ambitious by nature, and movies happened to me by chance.
Radhika Apte
Like pretty much every other ambitious person, I always figured I’d eventually move to New York. It is, at this point, half-dream and half-obligation for people trying to do big things. It’s the American Dream inside the American Dream.
Ryan Holiday
To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.
Stacey Abrams
I wasn’t the classic comedy type; I wasn’t bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.
Stewart Lee
When I entered my first newsroom in the late 80s it was packed with young people, a fairly balanced ratio of men and women, working as fixers, sub-editors, presenters and producers. Everyone was committed to the job, and equally ambitious.
Mary Nightingale
I don’t think women are being sidelined or ignored. If they are talented enough, they will get films. But they need to be more ambitious.
Suhasini Maniratnam
Players want to join a club that’s ambitious.
Rafael Benitez
I would only create clothes myself if I felt I could do something really different – create a new style subculture for my generation – and that is very ambitious.
G-Dragon
I am ambitious; I want to play in the Champions League or in the Europa League.
Marouane Fellaini
Let’s just start with the word ‘diva.’ It is obviously a sexist slight – a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It’s usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.
Campbell Brown
I am an ambitious person and I like a sense of challenge.
Laura Whitmore
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, ‘The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.’
Annie Besant
I’m not really very ambitious. I’m more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.
James D’arcy
At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.
Andre Previn
The idea that only the swaggering, all-knowing, and ruthlessly ambitious succeed is a lie. One that has discouraged so many people with so much potential – and worse, encouraged many more to crash and burn.
Ryan Holiday
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.
Kelly Macdonald
I am not that ambitious to do films. I am very happy and secure doing TV.
Kratika Sengar
Both Aishwaryaa and Soundarya are talented and ambitious. They are both daughters of the Superstar and have great command over their craft.
Dhanush
I'm very ambitious. I'm the kind of person who still fe

I’m very ambitious. I’m the kind of person who still feels as if they could win an Oscar. Albeit, with no evidence to support that expectation whatsoever.
Rose Matafeo