Ambitious Quotes - Page 3

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.

Be ambitious about things that last.

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.

I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.

We have now reached a level where we should be even more ambitious. We should focus on more tangible mechanisms and outcomes. Make BRICS a platform of Impact.

It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth.

All women are ambitious naturallie

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.

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub.

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

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.