Ambition Quotes
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I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.
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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.'
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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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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
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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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While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.
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I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.
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The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
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Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.
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Ambition aspires to descend.
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The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on.
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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.
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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.
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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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Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.
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In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.
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I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
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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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I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'
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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
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Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
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True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
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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.
