Ambitious Quotes
500 quotes by 433 authors
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious goal because most…
— Larry Page
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Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a…
— Charles Saatchi
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Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy…
— William Shakespeare
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To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but…
— Philip Sidney
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In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance…
— Ernest Starling
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Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to…
— E. O. Wilson
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The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.
— Vincent Nichols
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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
— Juvenal
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Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor…
— Sterling W Sill
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Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.
— John C. Maxwell
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is…
— Joseph Story
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When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake.…
— Rajneesh
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We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to…
— Rajneesh
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Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound…
— Rajneesh
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Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take…
— Rajneesh
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All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If…
— Rajneesh
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The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to…
— Rajneesh
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