Ambitious

Famous quotes containing the word ambitious:

“A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

“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 (1850–1894)

“And the ambitious vine
Crowns with his purple mass
The cedar reaching high
To kiss the sky,
The cypress, pine,
And useful sassafras.”
—Michael Drayton (1563–1631)