Ambition Quotes
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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
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Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
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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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God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to destroy ambition.
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Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
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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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I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'
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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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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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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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My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.
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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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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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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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The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
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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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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'm not somebody with over-weening ambition.
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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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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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We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.
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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 definitely have a lot of ambition.
