Ambitious Quotes
500 quotes by 417 authors
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We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!
— Freeman Dyson
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Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a…
— Walter Cronkite
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The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious…
— William Osler
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It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.
— Jil Sander
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I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and…
— Marcus Garvey
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I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
— Will Rogers
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In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our Asian friends resist…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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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.
— Ronda Rousey
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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.
— Mark Twain
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I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.
— Clare Balding
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When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter…
— Criss Jami
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Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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If we continue to show young girls that they are being compared to other girls, we’re doing ourselves a huge disservice as a society. I…
— Taylor Swift
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The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition;…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people below them. A…
— Mark Shields
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People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them…
— David Byrne
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.
— Neil Gaiman
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