Quotes: ambitious
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As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
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Juvenal
Roman poet
about 1st century AD
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
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Arnold Toynbee
British economic historian and social reformer
1852-1883
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.
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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
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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.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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Akhenaton
Egyptian King, Monotheist
BC -~1375
The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
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William Penn
English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania
1644-1718
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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