Ambitious
Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.
Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something.
Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.
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Ambitious Quotations
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
William Shakespeare
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare
President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.
Mitt Romney
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Ambrose Bierce
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Elizabeth I
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
William Penn
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Thomas Huxley
Ambitious Translations
ambitious in Dutch is ambitieus, eerzuchtig
ambitious in French is ambitieux
ambitious in German is ambitioniert, ehrgeizig, ehrgeizig
ambitious in Italian is ambizioso
ambitious in Portuguese is ambicioso
ambitious in Spanish is ambicioso
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