Ambition Quotes
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To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.
Arturo Sandoval
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Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition
William Shakespeare
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Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.
Richard Lamm
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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
Stephen Sondheim
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Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.
Plutarch
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Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
Arthur George Street
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Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
William Congreve
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Luc de Clapiers
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
Seneca the Younger
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It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it?
David Thewlis
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I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.
N. C. Wyeth
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No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.
George Washington
