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Tag Name "Ambitious" (375)

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Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
Guy Kawasaki
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Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination.
Jim Rohn
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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.
David M. Brown
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Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's there to stage his breakthrough. So many of the expats who were there at that time were there to do precisely that. It was an ambition-fueled town.
Lesley M. M. Blume
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It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery
Jonathan Mayhew
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The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
Louis Kronenberger
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
Joseph Addison
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The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
Luc de Clapiers
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To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.
Josephine Hart
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It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.
Lucian Freud
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I thought he might hit me over the head, knowing that he wanted to do the whole show. He was young, ambitious, and a huge talent. But he was also very gentle, and we got along fine.
Jule Styne
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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
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I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I mean, I was ambitious about quality, but I wasn't ambitious in the I've got to get a pilot! way. I never went out to L.A. for pilot season.
Justin Theroux
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Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.
Karen Abbott
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Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.
Marcus Licinius Crassus
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I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.
Katherine Helmond
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.
Kelly Macdonald
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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.
Mark Twain
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I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.
Kim Kardashian
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I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.
Martha Plimpton
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[Ralph Angel] was really about figuring out the humanity aspect of the character and not really paying attention to certain things like him being incarcerated or him being a father and showing that type of love and putting something before you, despite me not having kids in real life. He's vulnerable, ambitious and alive.
Kofi Siriboe
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[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.
Max Delbruck
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