Ambition Quotes
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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.
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There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.
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Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover it's not what they wanted at all. I don't want to be rich.
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Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.
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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 see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'
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The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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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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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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Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
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You don't need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.
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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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I had given up around 1950 any ambition of making a career as an artist.. .I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.
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My ambition is peace and perfection.
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Our ambition is to build a globally competitive and futuristic transportation system in India that will support and accelerate a nation on the move.
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With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.
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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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Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition
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I find myself really privileged to be able to go in and look at a set that the likes of Hollywood can provide, and say, 'My God, look at the craftsmanship in this; look at the ambition in it, the scale of it.'
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I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars.'
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My first ambition was to be a show jumper. I did a bit of dressage as part of it, and the dressage trainer saw me and said, 'Why are you wasting your time with the other stuff? You should be concentrating on this.'
