Quotes and Sayings About Ambitious
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You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Aubrey obviously plays Karen's, Sarah Michelle Gellar's, younger sister. And, um, she's sort of always been the underdog in the family and somebody who is not as ambitious or driven as her sister, as Karen's character, so she's sort of always felt like she's had to follow in her sister's footsteps.
-- Amber Tamblyn -
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.
-- Amelie Nothomb -
I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.
-- Amy Winehouse -
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 -
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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 -
No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.
-- Anthony Minghella -
Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.
-- Ardyth Kennelly -
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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
-- Arthur Keith -
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.
-- Arundhati Roy -
The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.
-- Auguste Rodin -
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
-- Augustus Hare -
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Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.
-- Ayn Rand -
Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
-- Barbra Streisand -
The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.
-- Bernard de Mandeville -
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Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.
-- Bill Mumy -
I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.
-- Billie Piper -
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-- Bonnie Gillespie -
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Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.
-- C. K. Prahalad -
If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?
-- Caroline Knapp -
The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.
-- Cesar Pelli -
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To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.
-- Chantal Kreviazuk -
The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.
-- Charles Baudelaire