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If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement. — Laszlo Bock

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. — Baruch Spinoza

Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams. — Dwayne Johnson

The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body. — Molly Crabapple

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didn't want to be a singer. I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star. — Polly Bergen

You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling. — Brandi L. Bates

You can't be both happy and ambitious. — J.A. Konrath

There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious. — Ronda Rousey

It's okay to be ambitious, but if you play too rough, your peers will unite against you. — Charles Duhigg

Be honest with yourself; set the alarm for the time the Real You will get up, not the Ambitious You, because the Ambitious You doesn't really exist. — Laurie Notaro

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

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. — Jean De La Bruyere

I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. — Mads Mikkelsen

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

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

Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it. — Marty Rubin

You exist! Be ambitious! — Will Evans

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go. — Michael B. Jordan

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

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate. — Ayn Rand

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

Go for your goal, be ambitious. Do what you dream, unlock your wishes. — Aaron David

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work. — Henry Rollins

When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious. — Madeleine M. Kunin

I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be. — Ricky Whittle

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success. — Peter Diamandis

Dare to be burned by the heat of our own ambitious hearts. — Terry Tempest Williams

If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are — Mitch Albom

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious. — Elizabeth Debicki

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous. — Squeak Carnwath

I may not be confident or ambitious but at least I'm not confident and ambitious — Tao Lin

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious. — Hugh Prather

belief in yourself that you can do it, and the ambitious dedication to doing what needs to be done to do it. — Ervin DeCastro

But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious. — Gore Vidal

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

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 — David Ogilvy

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

I have no interest or desire to be head of Fine Gael ... I am ambitious for my country and I always said I would love to sit at Cabinet ... — Lucinda Creighton

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself. — Henry Kissinger

Anybody can be ambitious. — Chris Hughes

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious. — Roxane Gay

You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup. — Kevin Nealon

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do. — James Young

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

As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes. — Sheryl Sandberg

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm. — Fernando J. Corbato

It was all very well to be ambitious, but ambition should not kill the nice qualities in you. — Noel Streatfeild

Those, who are believed to be most self - abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious — Baruch Spinoza

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature. — Robert Boyle

This is New York. If people found out worshipping the devil actually worked, every ambitious type A would be practicing it in their studio apartments. — Marisha Pessl

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal. — Ban Ki-moon

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular. — Lord North

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time. — Ned Vizzini

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published. — Edmund White

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me. — John Otway

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

No ambition which feeds on blood can be a worthy one — Nilesh Rathod

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up. — Billie Piper

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent. — Stuart Woods

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious. — Sarah Hall

I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will. — Lisa Ling

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

i am tough and ambitious and if that makes me a bitch.. then so be it. — Madona Bouglione

Be ambitious about things that last. — Bob Goff

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

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

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all. — Winston S. Churchill

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was ... I always wanted to be a movie actor. — Morgan Freeman

I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts. — Heidi Julavits

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people. — Graydon Carter

Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do. — Jean Monnet

Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough. — Ron Conway

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious. — Sheryl Sandberg

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. — Hannah Arendt

I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress. — Mary Harron

Be ambitious, Spend time wanting, pursuing, wishing. Chase things with passion. Dream but never let the chase diminish what you already have. — Unknown

I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me. — Bat For Lashes

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

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

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them. — Brandon Flowers

You can't learn to be ambitious and driven. — Ron Conway

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working. — John C. Maxwell

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. — Maya Angelou

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

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

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. — Pablo Schreiber

Be gracious.
Be fearless.
Be patient.
Be ambitious. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. — Russell Conwell

I certainly want to be ambitious for women. I'm ambitious for myself. I think women can definitely find areas in which they want to excel. — Debora Spar

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. — Walter Scott