Ambition Quotes
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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
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I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. These things can never be hinderance in the way of man, provided he be a man. You will have the practical proof in the near future.
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There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.
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If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.
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I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can.
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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
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I don't think ambition was ever my strong suit. I always wanted to be successful, because you want to be good at what you do, but I've definitely always enjoyed playing a supporting part. I really enjoy the success of others.
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
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On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
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In Washington, Senator Paul has put his own ambition ahead of Kentuckians and is behind policies that would hurt Kentucky families.
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A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
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My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
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When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.
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My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
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The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.
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It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.
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When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.
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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.
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I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.
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In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been emminent in that profession?
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.
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My only ambition is to grow as a musician.
