Ambitious Quotes

500 quotes by 417 authors

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. — Maya Angelou
Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious. — Bill Bryson
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the… — Banksy
And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming.… — Nicholas Sparks
It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an… — Tom Robbins
Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I… — Orson Scott Card
Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day. — Ringo Starr
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which… — William Shakespeare
For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet… — George Eliot
Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work. — Michael Jordan
Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did… — Joseph Heller
I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape,… — William Shakespeare
Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night. — George R. R. Martin
Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Childrenâ€™s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You… — John Green
I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best. — Michael J. Fox
Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves? — Jeffrey Archer
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon… — Koren Zailckas
So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least… — Carl Sagan
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to… — Charles Dickens
Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes… — David Foster Wallace

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