Ambition Quotes
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A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.
E. Lockhart -
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is - and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
Bette Davis -
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
William Laud -
I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.
Ian Mckellen -
It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.
Matthew Weiner -
One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
Lawrence Welk -
I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.
Bryan Adams
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We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.
Heather Donahue -
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.
Mason Cooley -
Ambition without contribution is of no significance.
Kevin Kline -
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
Eliza Cook -
Ambition never comes to an end.
Kenneth Kaunda
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I’ve known a lot of talented people but the people that really, really, achieve success – there is ambition, focus and drive behind it.
Anna Sui -
Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.
Bennett Miller -
Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
Bela Lugosi -
I am a first-time director given an opportunity to pursue an artistic ambition I would not likely have the chance to elsewhere. The budget is excruciatingly tight, I am regularly abused and I expect to be fired sometime before we shoot. It's nice to see that, at Miramax, continuity has been maintained.
Ben Affleck -
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Petrarch -
It's true that PSG have the ambition to win the Champions League, so they could be interesting for a player like me.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
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I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.
Joe DiMaggio -
As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.
Charles Kennedy -
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
James K. Polk -
I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition or thought of what I should be doing or had any idea of what I'd like to do. Never. And still don't. And if something comes along, I say 'Fine.'
Joanna Lumley