We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
Ruby Stevens was determined, ambitious and tough. She had to fend for herself in so many ways as a child and always felt apart, on her own.
Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.
I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.
Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.
I'm an entrepreneur. 'Ambitious' is my middle name.
We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
I just got off the bus and I'm really excited and ambitious and I took an acting class in Des Moines and I know I really need an agent and I want one now.
The value of an ambitious goal is not measured by what it will bring to you. The worth of a goal is measured by what it will make of you in the process of following and attaining it.
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery.
So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.
I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.
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.
No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.
I am not a career woman, and I would never have become one in normal life, because I am not ambitious enough for that.