Ambition Quotes
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When you start out in this business, the Hall of Fame is not what you're thinking about. You think all you want to do is make it to the major leagues. That's your goal, and that's your ambition as a broadcaster, just as it is with playing.
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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.
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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!
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Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. The upper class wants people to have ambition and gumption because, if you do, you will participate and you'll move through society into a different class structure.
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Florey was not an easy personality. His drive and ambition were manifest from the day he arrived ... He could be ruthless and selfish; on the other hand, he could show kindliness, a warm humanity and, at times, sentiment and a sense of humour.
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I am really pleased to sign permanently with St. Etienne. It was my ambition in coming to St. Etienne. This is one of the finest passages of my young career.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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We are not going to waste our reserves and burn them for any political ambitions. We will act very carefully.
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Your ambition outweighed your talent
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As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
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Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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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.
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My major ambition is just to stay relevant.
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Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
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What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
