Ambition Quotes
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
William Makepeace Thackeray -
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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The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
Erwin McManus -
I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
Plato -
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
Peter Ustinov -
At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.
Brian Tracy -
When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.
Anita Loos -
Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.
William Ernest Hocking
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I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.
Persis Khambatta -
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Abraham Lincoln -
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 -
No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.
Adrian Rogers -
Jenny, all my life I have wanted to do miracles. I have wanted to be holy. I suppose it was ambition or pride or some other unworthy thing. It was not enough for me to conquer the world--I wanted to conquer heaven too.
T. H. White -
There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.
Tim Ferriss
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I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it would be.
Joanne Rowling -
Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone; best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein -
Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.
Kimi Raikkonen -
Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.
William Lilly -
People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.
James Wolcott -
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.
Kevin James
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Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
Alex Flinn -
Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
William Davenant -
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
Albert Einstein -
I happen to think that as the Ukraine moves to the West, towards the E.U., eventually towards NATO, it will pave the way also for Russia moving towards the West. Because it will become a logical extension of the same process, and it will eliminate any imperial ambitions.
Zbigniew Brzezinski