Ambition Quotes
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A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.
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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.
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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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Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition
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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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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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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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It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.
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My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
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My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
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You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A reality shaped around your own desires - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.
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From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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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.
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My ambition is very cinema-driven.
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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
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The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
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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.
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Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.
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I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.
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The West is the fitting tomb for all the sorrow and the sighing, all the errors and the follies of the Past: for all its withered Hopes and all its buried Loves! From the East comes new strength, new ambition, new Hope, new Life, new Love! Look Eastward! Aye, look Eastward!'
