Ambitious Quotes

I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.
Nicole Scherzinger

Love, Humor, Time

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
Fisher Ames

Democracy, Liberty, Ignorant

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Read, Written, Events

I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.
Sadie Frost

Age, Young, Fiercely

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?
Tucker Carlson

Anybody can be ambitious.
Chris Hughes

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.
Theodor Herzl

Mistakes, Same, Wish

I'm not ambitious.
Amy Sedaris

I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind.
Sigmar Gabriel

Energy, Year, Whether

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.
Chris Evert

Person, Excel, Overly

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
Victoria Beckham

Positive, Spiritual, Person

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.
Vanessa Carlton

Around, Show, Full

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.
David Kay

Action, Less, President

There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point.
Estelle Morris

Good, Government, Nothing

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.
Tom Hardy

Down, Big, Matter

I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him.
John Milius

Him, Enough, Else

There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity.
Neil Tennant

Integrity, Guy, Wants

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
Alan Hansen

Him, Talk, Ambition

I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.
Rose Byrne

Women, Important, Try

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
Diane Cilento

Sometimes, Learn, Teach

I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me.
Alex Pettyfer

Success, Dreams, Live

The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.
Andy Taylor

Five, Exist, Guess

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

Goal, Honest, Once

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

Life, Music, Good

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.
Jil Sander

Hope, Design, May

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
Paul Graham

Young, Corporate, Ladder

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.
Vincent Gallo

Wanted, Whole, Idea

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
Ian Hart

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.
Tokugawa Ieyasu

Heart, Through, Days

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
Natalia Vodianova

Moment, Talent, Glory

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