#ambitious

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

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People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth. ↗

— Judi Dench

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When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

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I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

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I'm not very ambitious at all. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#i #very

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. ↗

— Augustus Hare

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I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious. ↗

— Alan Hansen

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

— Dana Hussein

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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

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People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it. ↗

— Perry Como

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