Ambition Quotes
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There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it.
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Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
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I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes.
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
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I don't think ambition was ever my strong suit. I always wanted to be successful, because you want to be good at what you do, but I've definitely always enjoyed playing a supporting part. I really enjoy the success of others.
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Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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For me, the ages between 9 and 12 were great because it was before you wore any masks, and you had some autonomy in the world. You had some freedom, and you felt you had unlimited ambition. It's when you thought, 'I'm going to write plays. I'm going to be president. I'm going to do this; I'm going to do that.' And then it all falls apart.
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My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.
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Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.
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Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.
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I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.
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There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.
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I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.
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My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.
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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
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Ambition:
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I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.
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Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.
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My main ambition as a teenager was to somehow resurrect the dark-minded writer Franz Kafka and become his girlfriend.
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Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life.
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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.
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Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
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I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.
