Ambitious Quotes

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

Time, Women, Men

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

Wish, Privacy, Talked

I've always been a really ambitious person.
Christina Ricci

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.
Diablo Cody

Person, Industry, Writers

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

I'm not very ambitious at all.
Amy Winehouse

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
Jack Kelley

Love, Person, Different

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.
Mindy Kaling

Fashion, Wants, Line

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Life, True, Important

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.
Sylvester Stallone

School, Wanted, Child

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

Success, Crisis, Career

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
David Mamet

Else, Everybody, Greedy

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.
Russell Baker

Death, President, Takes

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning

Great, Men, Anxiety

I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.
Jason Statham

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

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.
Natalie Portman

Hard, Different, Serious

I'm the most ambitious person you ever met.
Vin Diesel

I suppose that I am ambitious.
Antonio Banderas

I think sometimes we in the industry have to do ambitious projects.
Harvey Weinstein

Sometimes, Industry, Projects

Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Mother, Him, Young

I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
Fiona Apple

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

Good, Afraid, Ambition

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
Bobby Flay

Game, Down, After

'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.
Jane Smiley

Her, Easy, Read

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.
Ethan Hawke

Woman, Hard, Difficult

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.
Pamela Anderson

Beauty, Girl, Until

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

God, Business, Others

It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Smart, Why, Idea

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
Madonna Ciccone

Famous, End, Person

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