Lajos Kossuth Quotes
My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
Lajos Kossuth
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
Kate Christensen
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
Katey Sagal
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
Beau Willimon
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sallust
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
Wale
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The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
Fernando Torres
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter Savage Landor
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Eden Phillpotts
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
Fergus Henderson
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Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
James Cook
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I can sit in my room and write a song that I think might be a hit. I can sort of make myself do that, and then I'll play it to a friend, and they'll say, 'Oh, that's nice.' But when something happens to me, and I sit down and write a song to get rid of my emotions, they'll turn around and say, 'Wow, that's great.'
Estelle
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You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.
Kate Winslet
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Out of the water, I am nothing.
Duke Kahanamoku
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My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
Lajos Kossuth