#ambitious

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#being #grand #many #saying #things

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious. ↗

— Alan Hansen

#ambition #ambitious #him #i #i think

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious. ↗

— Ian Hart

#belligerent #i #rather #than

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#books #guess #i #living #make

I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#child #i #still #very

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. ↗

— Paul Graham

#corporate #ladder #most #obsolete #people

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. ↗

— Robert Burton

#anxiety #birds #cage #chain #climb

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure. ↗

— George W. Bush

#ambitious #failure #hope #hopeful #i

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#around #carnegie #carnegie hall #city #consider

People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it. ↗

— Perry Como

#ambitious #appearances #competitive #fooled #i