Ambitious Quotes

500 quotes by 436 authors

There are four varieties in society â€” the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. — Hippolyte Taine
Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious. — Marcus Licinius Crassus
Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong,… — Laurence D'Orsay
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of… — Marsilio Ficino
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it. — Mary Stewart
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their… — Jonathan Mayhew
A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex,… — Bonnie Jo Campbell
I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up… — Gavin Friday
Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz. — Jon Pareles
If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out. — Natalia Vodianova
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing, — Guy Kawasaki
There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage… — Haile Selassie
I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than… — Robert Plant
A personâ€™s first duty, a young personâ€™s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of… — G. H. Hardy
But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie. — Robert Towne
I'm belligerent rather than ambitious. — Ian Hart
So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such… — Joe Wright
The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive. — Scott Belsky
There is nothing like Integral Dreaming in the literature. This is an ambitious undertaking and its readers will gain an in-depth understanding of dreams and… — Stanley Krippner
I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things. — Jonny Greenwood

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