Ambitious Quotes

500 quotes by 436 authors

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me… — Hannah Arendt
It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family. — Michelle Bachelet
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… — Russell Baker
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one… — Charles Baudelaire
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none… — Joseph Addison
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories… — Annie Besant
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. — Ambrose Bierce
I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn't that what attracts anyone? — Tom Brady
My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced… — Jo Brand
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… — Robert Burton
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his… — Jean de la Bruyere
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. — Louisa May Alcott
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… — George W. Bush
People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people. — Graydon Carter
I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity. — Madonna Ciccone
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this… — Madonna Ciccone
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far. — Michel de Montaigne
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded… — Henry David Thoreau
When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a… — Alexis de Tocqueville
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… — Pat Summitt

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