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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
— Baruch Spinoza
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
People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.
— Prince William
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
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
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
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
— Louisa May Alcott
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
I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was ... I always wanted to be a movie actor.
— Morgan Freeman
So that over time, clever became cunning. Dynamic became obsessed. Ambitious became ruthless.
— Louise Penny
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
When you do a low budget movie, you get a little over-ambitious.
— Glenn Ficarra
I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
— Fiona Apple
It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself ...
— Lady Caroline Lamb
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
I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.
— Michael J. Fox
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
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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