Ambitious Quotes
500 quotes by 417 authors
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Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.
— Jean Monnet
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
— Fisher Ames
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Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.
— Lord North
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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
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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
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When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
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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
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For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
— Paul Graham
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The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?
— Tom Hunter
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I think sometimes we in the industry have to do ambitious projects.
— Harvey Weinstein
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.
— Theodore Zeldin
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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
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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
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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
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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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