Ambitious Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The value of an ambitious goal is not measured by what it will bring to you. The worth of a goal is measured by what it will make of you in the process of following and attaining it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

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.

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

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

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.

As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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