Ambition Quotes
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.
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In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
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If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.
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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.
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Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.
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Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition
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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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In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
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Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
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People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.
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My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.
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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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I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.
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Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.
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I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
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My dad was exceptionally ambitious. But he had a lot thrown on him, exceeding his ambition. He wanted his band to be successful. But he didn't want to be the fucking voice of a generation.
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I am trying to write a play that is big and I feel represents me - that's my big ambition.
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Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or to fulfil some non-existent imperial ambitions.
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When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.
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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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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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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
