Ambitious Quotes

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When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity. — Steve Pavlina
It's the most ambitious power grab I've ever witnessed. — Rick Santorum
To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. — Alexander Hamilton
[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions. — Max Delbruck
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible… — Robert Solow
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious… — Edward Gibbon
You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only… — Sydney Lea
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and… — Leo Tolstoy
I have no interest or desire to be head of Fine Gael.... I am ambitious for my country and I always said I would love… — Lucinda Creighton
As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market… — Vaclav Klaus
I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want. — Madonna Ciccone
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of… — James Madison
Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the… — James Madison
The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a… — Alexander Hamilton
I thought he might hit me over the head, knowing that he wanted to do the whole show. He was young, ambitious, and a huge… — Jule Styne
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty. — Fisher Ames
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment... — Edgar Allan Poe
OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without… — Ambrose Bierce
I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I'm not ambitious about my… — Mads Mikkelsen
There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think… — Patsy Kelly

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