Ambitious Quotes - Page 8

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

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.

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.

There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.

I love playing a smart, ambitious, talented woman. Who doesn't? That's really fun for me.

It's okay to be ambitious, it's okay to be over-prepared.

Keep striving for your goals, and remember that it's good to be ambitious.

To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?"

I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

Be more ambitious. Don't bunt. When you get a job to do a story or an ad, try and hit the ball out of the park every time

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them.

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes.

I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.

You exist! Be ambitious!

Ruby Stevens was determined, ambitious and tough. She had to fend for herself in so many ways as a child and always felt apart, on her own.

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so youre kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When youre young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.

... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn't ignore the little voice in my head that said maybe I was supposed to shed halfway, and do something significant. Contribute something. Accomplish something. Choose. Be.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.