Ambition Quotes
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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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People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.
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I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.
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A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
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My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.
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A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write a novel,' and they maybe find the first three pages quite easy, and then they hit a kind of brick wall, and they think that that brick wall means that they're not a writer.
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I've never told anyone, but my ambition is to become the leading all-time scorer of free kicks in Serie A.
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition
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Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.
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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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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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You don't need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.
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I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.
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For me, the ages between 9 and 12 were great because it was before you wore any masks, and you had some autonomy in the world. You had some freedom, and you felt you had unlimited ambition. It's when you thought, 'I'm going to write plays. I'm going to be president. I'm going to do this; I'm going to do that.' And then it all falls apart.
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The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.
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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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Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
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I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
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Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.
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Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.
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Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.
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What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
