Ambition Quotes
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I just wanted to play tennis. It wasn't a job. It was an ambition. I knew I could make money at it. I was 18 - old enough to think I could do it, young enough not to consider the consequences.
Martina Navratilova
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I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.
John McCain
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He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.
Iain Pears
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My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.
Alexandra Roach
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They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
Tacitus
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The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
Urbain Dubois
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A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
John Adams
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Luc de Clapiers
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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.
Mariah Carey
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Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.
John Caudwell
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We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.
Emmanuel Macron
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At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.
Pam Grier
