#ambitious

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#ambitious #contract #covering #devious #discovery

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented. ↗

— John Turturro

#ambitious #stars #think #you

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#ambitious #beyond #goal #important #itself

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else. ↗

— David Mamet

#else #everybody #everybody else #greedy #i

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do. ↗

— Jean Monnet

#everybody #question #whether

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#ambitious #determined #get #i #knew

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

— Sadie Frost

#ambitious #fiercely #i #independent #very

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#around #disappointing #enthusiastic #other #people

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

#anybody #better #else #enough #form

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#ambitious #gong #men #much #until