#ambitious

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. ↗

— Fisher Ames

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To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not. ↗

— Christopher Walken

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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. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do. ↗

— Jean Monnet

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Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular. ↗

— Lord North

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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading. ↗

— Amy Poehler

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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

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I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. ↗

— Diane Cilento

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