Ambitious Quotes

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

Weren, Talented, Gross

I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want.
Madonna Ciccone

I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
Fergie

Love, Care, Try

I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character.
Anna Kendrick

Character, Air, Offer

I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
Idris Elba

Live, Found, Cause

I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.
Idris Elba

Long, Saying, Person

Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.
Joe Rogan

Successful, Game, Else

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.
Steve Coogan

Career, Youth, Comedy

I'm still fiercely ambitious.
Alexei Sayle

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.
Ethel Merman

Time, Old, Somebody

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 Burton

Great, Men, Anxiety

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
Jada Pinkett Smith

Success, Bad, Why

I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.
Malcolm Turnbull

Good, Political, Person

I've always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.
Glenda Jackson

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

Truth, Nothing, Idea

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.
Jo Nesbo

Nature, True, Evil

'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
Gary Ross

Seems, Handle, Wide

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.
Jean Monnet

Question, Everybody, Whether

There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.
Eric Ries

Money, Business, Nothing

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.
Rory McIlroy

Love, Great, Home

I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.
Pharrell Williams

Done, Realize, Overly

It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
Michelle Bachelet

Love, Work, Family

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
Guy Kawasaki

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.
Candace Bushnell

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.
Sheryl Sandberg

Women, Men, Until

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.
Jonathan Coe

Political, Sometimes, Start

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens

Travel, Stuff, Knew

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.
Darren Criss

Sense, High, Bar

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.
Darren Criss

Fall, Goals, Answer

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.
Jay Inslee

Goals, Cars, Improve

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