Ambition Quotes
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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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The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.
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Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.
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I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.
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That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
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Ambition, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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I want to score more goals; the main ambition is goals.
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The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
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Despite girls' sparkling resumes - including rates of college enrollment and high school grades that outstrip boys - sexism is a barrier that still leaves girls ambivalent about power. Opening doors has not amounted to ambition to lead for many of them, even those with options, networks, and resources. Rachel Simmons
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Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
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On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
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The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.
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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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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
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Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.
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I am still full of ambition.
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Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.
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Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!
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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.
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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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The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.
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I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.
