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Tag Name "Ambitious" (387)

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I'm not an overly ambitious person I don't feel like I have to excel.
Chris Evert
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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
Arthur Keith
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Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are.
Morrie Schwartz
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I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn't that what attracts anyone?
Tom Brady
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The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
Louis Kronenberger
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Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty as superstition,on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery.
David Hume
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius
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Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning they are an incentive to keep you going all day.
Harvey Mackay
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I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.
Diablo Cody
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I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.
Kim Kardashian
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They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.
Robert Burton
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We must be optimistic about the future because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we are creative and ambitious, intelligent machines will liberate us and be as profound a boon to our prosperity as electricity. If we are fearful, and fail to press ahead, we could be overwhelmed by automation and inequality.
Garry Kasparov
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For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.
Rachel Whiteread
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Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.
William Gilmore Simms
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To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. It is just me. What do I care about others?
Evo Morales
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Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what? asked Wang-mu. I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes, said Peter. Then let's do it. That's us in spades.
Orson Scott Card
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Back when I was younger, Very ambitious, but often blinded by my hunger. Some say I dream too big, And my dream gon' take me under.
Freddie Gibbs
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The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
Thomas Adams
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The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.
Charles Baudelaire
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I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I not only survived all this but I have thrived. I've always been psychologically ambitious in that I've never been willing to settle emotionally for anything less then what's needed. I've wanted more then that from life.
Augusten Burroughs
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A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.
Stuart Woods
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The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.
D. J. MacHale
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
Barbra Streisand
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