Ambitious Quotes

500 quotes by 436 authors

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
I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without. — Anna Julia Cooper
I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself. — Fergie
As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in… — Jonathan Coe
Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. .… — Julian Baggini
A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freudâ€™s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian… — Brenda Webster
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, medicine, and… — Joseph Auslander
Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first… — Jill Ciment
To not dare is to have already lost. We should seek out ambitious, even unrealistic projects, because things only happen when we dream. — Andree Putman
The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up. — Grant Cardone
Politically, the goal of todayâ€™s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is the erosion of… — Ayn Rand
As a typically ambitious player, I did what all others of that ilk do: Everything I could do to gain advantage for my PCs and… — Gary Gygax
Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself. — Tal Ben-Shahar
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz
A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them… — Jim Rohn
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. It is the goal of every other goal. Ben Henretig has embarked on an ambitious project… — Deepak Chopra
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Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving. — Joyce Carol Oates
Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a concept around her is that she… — Marina and the Diamonds

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