Ambitious Quotes

• Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

  David Brainerd

  Desire, World, Command

  David BRAINERD, Horatius Bonar (1853). “The Life of David Brainerd ... Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings. By Jonathan Edwards. With Preface, by the Rev. Horatius Bonar”, p.255

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• The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016

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• Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Gustave Flaubert (1951). “Letters”

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• The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

  Fisher Ames

  Believe, Ignorant, Democracy

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends”, p.384

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• I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

  Idris Elba

  Journey, Long Ago, Competition

  FaceBook post by Idris Elba from Oct 19, 2012

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• It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wise, Thinking, Vanity

  "Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 84), 1997.

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• I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.

  Jason Statham

  Hard Work, Enthusiastic, Hard

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• The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Dream, Ambition

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.155, Classic Books Company

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  Big results require big ambitions.

  Heraclitus

  Business, Ambition, Results

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• Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

  Augustus Hare

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• We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

  Rodrigo Rato

  Encouragement, Italian, Government

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• I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

  Ian Hart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

  George W. Bush

  Ambition, Humor, Political

  Interview with the Associated Press, January 18, 2001.

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• Ive always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.

  Glenda Jackson

  Very Good

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• President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Usa, Growth

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• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

  Hannah Arendt

  Inspirational, Age, Would Be

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• It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

  Tucker Carlson

  Hard, Ifs

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• Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

  Arthur Keith

  Jealous, Men, Envious

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Wisdom, People, Pockets

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'Crabbed Age and Youth'.

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• Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Patriotic, Names, Patriotism

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.160, 谷月社

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• I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

  Catherine Keener

  Thinking, Play, People

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• To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Goal, Honest, Being Honest

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• I'm not really very ambitious.

  James D'arcy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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