Top 1200 Ambitious Goals Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.

Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

Let's not forget that I am an actor and I'm a real budding, enthusiastic and ambitious actor.

I think that every player in every team must have an ambitious mind.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

It isn't that women are less ambitious, but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.

I'm incredibly ambitious, but I feel I've got a fantastic career, and I love the anonymity. I love that no one knows who I am.

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

I am not that ambitious to do films. I am very happy and secure doing TV.

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.

I believe it is of particular importance in our day, when Satan is raging in the hearts of men in so many new and subtle ways, that our choices and decisions be made carefully, consistent with the goals and objectives by which we profess to live. We need unequivocal commitment to the commandments and strict adherence to sacred covenants. When we allow rationalizations to prevent us from temple endowments, worthy missions, and temple marriage, they are particularly harmful. It is heartbreaking when we profess belief in these goals yet neglect the everyday conduct required to achieve them.

It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Bank of America is the story of some of the most ambitious, aggressive bank builders on the face of the planet.

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.

The character of 'Mama' is so ambitious in a way that everything I did was always on the verge of being almost funny. So you have to be very careful with that. It's that sort of face that you don't usually see in horror.

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilities and vulnerabilities and embarked on an ambitious and largely successful modernization effort.

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of consciousness. It is also necessary to have an overall context of goals for the events of everyday life to make senseTo create harmony in whatever one does is the last task that the flow theory presents to whose who wish to attain optimal experience; it is a task that involves transforming the entirety of life into a single flow activity, with unified goals that provide constant purpose.

I'm happy in Paris, I'm happy to play with great players and to be part of an ambitious project.

Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

I surrounded myself with a lot of different creative people and ambitious people.

I've learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may not be as open to other opportunities because I'm so focused on one thing. I think what's worked better for me personally is I have three goals every day: be nice, work hard and make friends. Those are my daily goals, and I feel like those are the things that create opportunity and creating connections that will then lead to other things that I may not have planned for otherwise.

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine.

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

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

I am ambitious; I want to play in the Champions League or in the Europa League.

I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?

Most people sabotage themselves because they aren't mindful in the moment. Let your daily actions be governed by your goals & dreams. Whenever you are making an important decision first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away. If the answer is closer, pull the trigger. If it's farther away make a different choice. Conscious choice making is a critical step in making your dreams a reality.

It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.

I'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous.

I am ambitious, and I'm excited for my career to grow, and I do want to represent the Asian community and the Filipino community.

Most of us at one time or another have been part of a great 'team', a group of people who functioned together in an extraordinary way-who trusted one another, who complemented each other's strengths and compensated for each other's limitations, who had common goals that were larger than an individual's goals, and who produced extraordinary results ... the team that became great didn't start off great-it learned how to produce extraordinary results.

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.

It is true that a lot of people are easily distracted online. As a result, too many of us have given up on digital audiences for ambitious work, and this is a mistake.

I moved to Liverpool in 2012, and they were really ambitious, bringing in top players. In 2013, we beat Arsenal - who seemed invincible - 4-0. It was the shock of the century.

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.

I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

Shah Rukh has definitely been my inspiration. He is extremely focused in his work and is extremely ambitious.

I'm an ambitious player who wants success and I want to win every game in every competition we're in.

I feel as if I'm getting better all the time. At the same time, though, I'm ambitious.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

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.

You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.

I have a very positive and optimistic view about what we can do together. That's why the slogan of my campaign is 'Stronger Together.' Because I think if we work together, if we overcome the divisiveness that sometimes sets Americans against one another, and instead we make some big goals - and I've set forth some big goals: Getting the economy to work for everyone, not just those at the top, making sure that we have the best education system from preschool through college, making it affordable, and so much else.

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.