Ambition Quotes
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
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A truce to philosophy! - Life is before me and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread.
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I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.
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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
