#ambitious

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

#bigger #bit #dream #fall #further

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

#amuse #children #instruction #like #live

I suppose that I am ambitious. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#ambitious #i #i am #suppose

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. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#another #give #hate #hatred #instinctive

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#any #combustible #his #illuminate #name

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#background #became #bigger #books #eventually

I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#am #ambitious #any #australia #careful

Anybody can be ambitious. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#anybody

I'm very ambitious, despite all the challenges I face in the streets. ↗

— Dana Hussein

#challenges #despite #face #i #streets

I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#child #i #still #very