Ambitious Person Quotes

• Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

  Bill Bradley

  Positive, Perseverance, Encouragement

  "Toni’s Take on Real Estate: The Three ‘P’s You Need" by Toni Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2012.

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• The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Dream, Ambition

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.155, Classic Books Company

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• I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

  Chris Evert

  Ambitious, Feels, Persons

  "I've Lived A Charmed Life". Interview with Sally Jenkins, www.si.com. May 25, 1992.

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• As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Life, Ambition

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [27]

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• I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

  Idris Elba

  Journey, Long Ago, Competition

  FaceBook post by Idris Elba from Oct 19, 2012

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• When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

  Reba McEntire

  People, Ambitious, Disappointing

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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

  Work, Ambition, Men

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• 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

  Jobs, Thinking, Australia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.

  Melanie Klein

  Baby, Ambition, Ambitious

  Melanie Klein (2002). “Envy and Gratitude”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.

  Pablo Schreiber

  Moving, Ambitious, Want

  Broadway Bullet Interview, www.broadwaybullet.com. March 26, 2007.

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• I'm an ambitious person. I mean, if I did that... I would self-destruct, in the sense that the decadence would be too strong an attraction for me. Whether that be in the form of gambling, fast cars, alcohol, drugs, whatever it happens to be... I think the lure of that lifestyle would be too strong.

  James Packer

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

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• I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.

  Jason Isbell

  Wise, Thinking, Careers

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• If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Dream, Taken, Simple

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.12, Powell Publications, LLC

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• You know, women in Hollywood, we don't get action franchises and superheroes. The rom-coms that made Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and Reese Witherspoon stars are out of favor right now- nobody is making them. In this business, if you are an ambitious person, you don't wait for people to hand you opportunities. You have to make a way for yourself.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Stars, Opportunity, Hands

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• I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

  Diablo Cody

  Self, Ambitious, Flukes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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