Top 100 Be Ambitious Quotes
#2. God never intended true humility to be a fabric softener for our aspirations. We aren't to be ambitious for our own honor or glory. But we are to be ambitious for God's honor and glory, radically so.
Matt Perman
#3. But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#4. Go for your goal, be ambitious. Do what you dream, unlock your wishes.
Aaron David
#5. 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
#6. The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you're shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.
Eric Barker
#7. Be ambitious, Spend time wanting, pursuing, wishing. Chase things with passion. Dream but never let the chase diminish what you already have.
Unknown
#8. 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
#9. Too many people are frightened. They want youth to last. They complain bitterly if sickness comes. But the world is always in tumult, and fortunes rise and fall and fail. It is the ambitious who accomplish things. It takes courage to be ambitious, for never was anything great achieved without risk.
Jeff Wheeler
#10. Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.
Dwayne Johnson
#11. To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court
Philip Sidney
#12. Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#13. 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
#14. Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.
William Clark
#15. People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.
Graydon Carter
#16. Honesty, good intentions and industry, you will have of course. Without these your career would soon end with the loss of your good name. But you must be ambitious to be a good deal more. Webb Hayes, his son, went on to found what had become the Union Carbide Corporation.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#17. Okay, so all a woman has to do is ignore society's expectations, be ambitious, sit at the table, work hard, and then it's smooth sailing all the way. What could possibly go wrong?
Sheryl Sandberg
#18. I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.
Jonny Greenwood
#19. 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
#20. You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.
Kevin Nealon
#21. In a lot of ways, if I were ambitious about anything - besides my career - I'd be ambitious about love. Ambitious in the sense that I really hope to find true love.
Sonam Kapoor
#22. When I lecture kids, I say, 'You've got to be ambitious by the advertising - ambitious. You've got to say, 'See, this product? Maybe I can change the world with this product.' They look at me like I'm nuts, but that's what you can do.
George Lois
#23. It was all very well to be ambitious, but ambition should not kill the nice qualities in you.
Noel Streatfeild
#24. 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
#25. It's okay to be ambitious, but if you play too rough, your peers will unite against you.
Charles Duhigg
#26. Wake up early. Drink some juice, and eat well. Work hard. Be ambitious. Keep your priorities straight, your mind right, and your head up. Do well, live well, love well, and dress really well. Do what you love, love what you do. It is time to start living.
Anonymous
#27. As part of the E.U., my children can have the freedom and the opportunity to work and live across Europe; to be ambitious in the world's largest market; and to access so much of the history, the culture and the opportunity which is our common European heritage.
Andrew Lansley
#28. So at most companies, an unspoken compact emerges: It's okay to be ambitious, but if you play too rough, your peers will unite against you. On the other hand, if you focus on boosting your own department, rather than undermining your rival, you'll probably get taken care of over time.
Charles Duhigg
#29. An inchoate ball of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon, to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise he risked terminal resentment, from which there was no return.
Claire Messud
#30. 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
#31. Be ambitious about things that last.
Bob Goff
#32. There is far more happiness in a life that is your own than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make. Do not ever be ambitious.
Ken Liu
#34. One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.
Aristotle.
#35. Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.
Ron Conway
#36. It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?
Tucker Carlson
#37. Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending you're not for so long. After that, it becomes ridiculous.
Anne-Marie Duff
#38. Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts ... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.
Winston Churchill
#39. I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#40. In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music, and to paint when I feel like it.
Saul Leiter
#41. 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
#42. Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.
John C. Maxwell
#43. 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
#44. You can't learn to be ambitious and driven.
Ron Conway
#45. A person's first duty, a young person's at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.
G.H. Hardy
#46. Make sure it is not too diverse or spread out so people don't know where to go or what to do. So keep a sharp focus. It can be ambitious but should have a small agenda.
Amy Ziering
#47. 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
#48. People can say I am a terrible role model because I swear all the time or that I fight people. Look, I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. I want them to know that it is O.K. to be ambitious. I want them to know that it is O.K. to say whatever it is that is on their mind.
Ronda Rousey
#49. From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.
Michael Urie
#50. I told the members of the graduating class that they should be ambitious not just in pursuing their dreams but in aspiring to become leaders in their fields.
Sheryl Sandberg
#51. Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.
Ryokan
#52. 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
#53. I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.
Gavin Friday
#55. I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
Madonna Ciccone
#56. 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
#57. I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.
Stephanie Allain
#58. Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.
Abraham Lincoln
#59. 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
#60. Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the choice would be less likely to be diverted from him, by the intrigues of the ambitious, or the bribes of the rich.
James Madison
#61. Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I was trying to have a discussion with the actors, she'd be pulling out a blade out from underneath her gypsy skirt and menace someone saying, "Maybe I should slit your throat."
Kam Williams
#62. If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
Orison Swett Marden
#63. Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.
Walter Cronkite
#64. Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please ... It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.
Gretchen Rubin
#65. It was nice doing my own Joy Division book to be able to put forward the fact that Ian was actually quite a nice guy and very hardworking, ambitious and loyal. But the thing was, he was battling such a dreadful illness in an era when they really didn't know how to treat it.
Peter Hook
#66. You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.
Christopher Moore
#67. Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.
Theodore Zeldin
#68. Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
Marty Rubin
#69. The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
Fisher Ames
#70. I used to be the queen of domesticity, a Good Housekeeping cover model in the making. I was also an ambitious professional. These two identities had always been on a collision course. But I was oblivious to that fact until after the crash.
Tiffany Dufu
#71. I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter ... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.
Stuart Pearson Wright
#73. I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
Ned Vizzini
#74. I'd never considered myself to be that ambitious or driven before, yet I stood there waiting for us to roll out through the start line knowing that taking part wasn't enough. I wanted to be a racer, not just a finisher.
David Millar
#75. All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.
Gore Vidal
#76. Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!
Bruce Lee
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. When you are starting out you're inspired by so many different things, you just want to be the best, man ... and you're just so ambitious; your drive is just at a million!
Ginuwine
#80. Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#81. '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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. No ambition which feeds on blood can be a worthy one
Nilesh Rathod
#85. Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.
Richard Russo
#86. There is not much future in men being friends with great women although it can be pleasant enough before it gets better or worse, and there is usually even less future with truly ambitious women writers.
Ernest Hemingway,
#87. If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.
Thomas Hobbes
#88. Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.
Russell Conwell
#89. I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a bit more ambitious, and think more about every word, because I know that they pay closer attention when they read than adults do.
Neil Gaiman
#90. When I was 14, I thought, 'How wonderful to be a science fiction writer. I'd like to do that.' I have never lost touch with that ambitious 14-year-old, and I can't help chuckling and thinking, 'You did it, and you did it right.'
Robert Silverberg
#91. I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.
Mads Mikkelsen
#92. 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
#93. belief in yourself that you can do it, and the ambitious dedication to doing what needs to be done to do it.
Ervin DeCastro
#94. All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.
Diana Vreeland
#95. A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.
Stuart Woods
#96. Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
Natalie Massenet
#97. Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?
Caroline Knapp
#98. In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.
Ernest Starling
#99. I've always been really ambitious, whatever I do. At school, I always wanted to be the best in the class - no, it wasn't enough to be the best in the class, I'd want to be the best in the country.
Sophia Myles
#100. I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was ... I always wanted to be a movie actor.
Morgan Freeman
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