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• The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Exercise, Greatness, Mind

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.149

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• I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

  Elizabeth Debicki

  Dream, Fall, Scary

  "Elizabeth Debicki In ‘The Great Gatsby’: Australian Newcomer Grabs Jordan Baker Part", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2011.

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• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia. The friends of a free government cannot be too watchful, to overcome the dangerous tendency of the public mind to sacrifice, for the sake of mere private convenience, this powerful check upon the designs of ambitious men.

  Joseph Story

  Powerful, Army, Sacrifice

  Joseph Story (1842). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States”, p.264

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• It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.

  William Osler

  Men, Mind, Body

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• It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

  Jil Sander

  Design, Sound, May

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• I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dream, Jesus, Destiny

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• I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

  Darren Criss

  Fall, Goal, Lap

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• When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

  Steve Coogan

  Careers, Comedy, Students

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• I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

  Clare Balding

  Thinking, Adjectives, Way

  "'I'm going to glam up': Clare Balding nervous ahead of prime time TV role" by Simon Boyle, www.mirror.co.uk. December 28, 2012.

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• ... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

  Mark Twain

  Liars, Humorous, Picturesque

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• I'm really ambitious.

  Jourdan Dunn

  "'Why are the catwalks so white?'". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.

  Ronda Rousey

  Girl, Ambition, Mma

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• In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our Asian friends resist that ambition. Sometimes our folks get a little impatient. Sometimes they rattle their rockets some, and they bluff about their bombs. But we are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Ambition, Boys

  Speech at Akron University, Akron, Ohio, 21 Oct. 1964

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• Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.

  Marcus Garvey

  Ambition, Light, Flames

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Fall, Years, Europe

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• I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

  Vincent Gallo

  Stars, Ideas, Actors

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

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• I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Successful, Long, Worry

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Children, Amelie, Great Things

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• I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Evil, Want

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• I'm really ambitious about is being a really good comic and doing it for the rest of my life and getting really big. Not really famous because I want fame or attention, just a little freedom. So, that's where I'm ambitious.

  Jen Kirkman

  Attention, Want, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

  John Otway

  Stars, Children, Fans

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• My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Lucky me" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Girl, Successful, Reality

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• From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.

  Michael Urie

  Perspective, Trying, Acting

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• I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.

  Jesse Metcalfe

  Children, Father, Thinking

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