Ambitious Quotes

500 quotes by 417 authors

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do. — Jean Monnet
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. — Fisher Ames
Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular. — Lord North
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan… — Robert Adamson
There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a… — Estelle Morris
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my… — Eydie Gorme
For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. — Paul Graham
The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable? — Tom Hunter
I think sometimes we in the industry have to do ambitious projects. — Harvey Weinstein
I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until… — Pamela Anderson
The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the… — Conrad Black
One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being… — Marina Warner
I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and… — Jenna Dewan
How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What… — Gail Collins
Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were. — Theodore Zeldin
Now see, a lot of critics are saying Arnold can't get elected because he's just an ambitious guy with a famous name, who doesn't know… — Jay Leno
PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as… — Ambrose Bierce
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
From where I am sitting much of the country now sees the President the way I have seen him since the campaign. He is an… — Unknown Author

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