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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
Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.
— John Lanchester
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
— Baruch Spinoza
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[I am] loyal, ambitious and clever.
— Mike Holloway
Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.
— William Safire
Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.
— Charles Darwin
It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
— Edmund S. Muskie
After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.
— Melanie Phillips
You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.
— Brandi L. Bates
The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?
— Tom Hunter
You can't be both happy and ambitious.
— J.A. Konrath
People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.
— Prince William
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
It's okay to be ambitious, but if you play too rough, your peers will unite against you.
— Charles Duhigg
If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films.
— Keeley Hawes
We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.
— Rodrigo Rato
I'm still fiercely ambitious.
— Alexei Sayle
I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.
— Mads Mikkelsen
There is no one more sinister or dangerous than an ambitious yet characterless Politician!
— Robert Anthony Kerr
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
— William Shakespeare
I'm not very ambitious at all.
— Amy Winehouse
The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
— Louis Kronenberger
No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand [television].
— Fred W. Friendly
I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition.
— Caroline Lucas
I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
— Fiona Apple
A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.
— Stuart Woods
I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
— Tamra Davis
I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.
— Sarah Hall
I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.
— Kim Kardashian
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 don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.
— Catherine Keener
To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.
— Chantal Kreviazuk
An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous
— Thomas Overbury
i am tough and ambitious and if that makes me a bitch.. then so be it.
— Madona Bouglione
It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.
— Seamus Dever
I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
— Edmund White
Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To become a better you, never let the attitude of pride linger around your ambitions.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Ambitious people baffle me. What are they looking for, what do they think they're missing?
— Marty Rubin
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment ...
— Edgar Allan Poe
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[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.
— Max Delbruck
If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
— Natalia Vodianova
The girls everyone considers the "prettiest" are not always the most interesting or ambitious people.
— Crystal Renn
Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
— George R R Martin
No ambition which feeds on blood can be a worthy one
— Nilesh Rathod
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
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
— Edmund Spenser
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.
— Winston S. Churchill
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
— Robert Adamson
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
— Louisa May Alcott
I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was ... I always wanted to be a movie actor.
— Morgan Freeman
I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts.
— Heidi Julavits
In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.
— Mason Cooley
Germany," Lindbergh said, "had the ambitious drive of America, but that drive was headed for war.
— Winston Groom
There are four varieties in society - the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
— Hippolyte Taine
People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.
— Graydon Carter
I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.
— Craig Ferguson
Intentions are ambitious liars.
— Jon Acuff
The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.
— Horace Walpole
Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.
— Peter Sarsgaard
I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
— David Mamet
Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.
— Clive Barker
You will see true character after a defeated ambition
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.
— Chip Conley
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
— Victoria Beckham
I've always been a really ambitious person.
— Christina Ricci
No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.
— Thomas Carlyle
An ambitious, paradoxical world we live in - of short attention spans
paired with the massive fear
of being forgotten too soon. — Sreesha Divakaran
I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.
— Hayley Atwell
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
No one has ever accused me of being ambitious.
— Burt Shavitz
Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Be ambitious about things that last.
— Bob Goff
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
As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.
— Rodman Philbrick
I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
— Madonna Ciccone
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
No one "deserves" success; it is either earned with hard work or lost to the hands of fate.
— Sanhita Baruah
If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.
— Helen Lawrenson
Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
— Sam Altman
