Ambition Quotes
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Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people, by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into the hands... and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and... provide for their own safety and security.
John Locke
Nazareth
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In his writings, Patton was shameless about his ambition to woo Lena to be his bride. He detailed the gradual progress he made, playing music for her on his violin, writing her poems, beguiling her with stories, engaging her in conversation. It was clear that he obsessed over her. He knew what he wanted and never relented until she was his.
Brandon Mull
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The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
Willa Cather
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
Brian Tracy
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The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud
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In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
Andrea Bocelli
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Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.
Eric Idle
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To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isn't there, it's easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, it'll come. It's definitely harder work than some people think.
Alexandra Chando
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I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.
Patti Smith
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Edgar Quinet
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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Philip Massinger
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Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
Archie Panjabi