Ambitious Quotes

500 quotes by 436 authors

The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of God. He was called Lucifer,… — Milton R. Hunter
We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We… — James Kavanaugh
India has the most technically ambitious and innovative nuclear energy program in the world, — Siegfried Hecker
A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a… — James Keller
It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings… — Alain de Botton
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the… — Margaret Fuller
You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented. — John Turturro
Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers. — David Kay
Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get. — Joe Rogan
Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles. — Richard Branson
Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate. — Ayn Rand
A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . .… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you… — Tim Ferriss
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. — Larry Page
My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30… — Lawrence Hargrave
I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other… — Robert Boyle
We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach. — Taylor Swift
Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking far more… — Robert Higgs
When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious. — Sheryl Sandberg

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