#ambitious

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#combative #competitive #envious #jealous #man

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

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#goal #honest #i #once #oriented

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#been #career #crisis #had #hung

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I. ↗

— Eydie Gorme

#ambitious #before #children #definitely #got

The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable? ↗

— Tom Hunter

#exports #goal #government #increasing #scottish

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#appetite #cold #english #hollywood #mountain

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

— Fisher Ames

#believe #call #democracy #ignorant #known

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. ↗

— Russell Baker

#among #beginnings #death #dramatic #flourish

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#ambitious #honest #i #never #still

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. ↗

— David Brainerd

#being #better #business #commands #desire