Ambition Quotes
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I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
Jean-Francois Cope
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I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control.
Ella Baker
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After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very difficult to make a living as a theater actor in New York, which is why I moved out here, and I always had an ambition to work in television. I am a great admirer of the format, and I think it's how we tell long stories.
Luke Macfarlane
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Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
Beau Willimon
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I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
Walter Cronkite
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My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.
Tariq Anwar
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Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer; however, if you can't see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it.
Kristin Chenoweth
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I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.
R. A. Torrey
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Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
Francesco Guicciardini
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Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
John Webster
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America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.
Mario Cuomo
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When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.
William Broad
Generation X
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I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.
Jeremy Irons
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.
Bette Midler
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I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count with a swim in the men's pond. It's an ambition of mine to swim in the ponds on every day of the year.
Bertie Carvel
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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.
T. S. Eliot
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Napoleon Bonaparte
