Ambition Quotes
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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.
Carmen Kass -
My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life—to stay fit and feel good.
Leroy Chiao
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The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
Peter Ustinov -
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
Nadine Gordimer -
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
Jodie Foster -
I realized then what I had known since I was a child watching my mother die of cancer-namely, that beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotion, there was only pain. And salvation from it.'
Dan Simmons -
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
Peter Carey
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I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
Plato -
Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.
William Davenant -
Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.
Martin Luther -
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
Aslan Maskhadov -
To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
William Makepeace Thackeray -
I dont even think in terms of ambition.
Kevin Spacey
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The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
Erwin McManus -
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.
Alan Furst -
He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.
Daniel Wallace -
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
Jock Sturges -
Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.
Arthur Desmond -
Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.
Plutarch
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If you have enough ambition, you can create talent!
Darcey Bussell -
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
Peter Ustinov -
In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.
Alexandra Fuller -
Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck