Ambition Quotes
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All sporting ambition considered, there should always be a relationship to Germany.
Oliver Bierhoff
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Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.
William Lilly
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The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
Peter Ustinov
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The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.
Jean-Michel Jarre
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The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
Peter Ustinov
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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William Hazlitt
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare
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I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.
Geoffrey Boycott
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
Anthony Trollope
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If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live with the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sort of things. That's the only time I think we really leave a great legacy.
Rich Mullins
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Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to the customer what the ambition of their restaurant is. Not only the typeface and the design, but what is it printed on? Is it cheap-looking? Is it the right kind of paper for that restaurant?
Joe Bastianich
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As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn Davies
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Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
Kevin Spacey
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It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
Abraham Lincoln
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
John Stuart Mill
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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
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Abraham Lincoln
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Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.
Baden Powell
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I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.
John Hurt
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
William Shakespeare
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The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!
Rupert Friend
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Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I just worship Madonna. As, like, a young gay kid growing up in the '80s and '90s... I was at the Blond Ambition tour with my parents vogue-ing up in the mezzanine at the Nassau Coliseum.
Billy Eichner