Ambition Quotes
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So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.
George Jung
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Pride went before, ambition follows him.
William Shakespeare
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Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.
Walter Keane
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They that soar too high, often fall hard.
William Penn
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The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.
Dave Grohl
Nirvana
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By just passing through things, I continue to slightly limit myself. I want the jobs that don't say that much. I'm often the stepping stone or the conduit from one thing to another. I love the idea of existing in a film and growing and having bigger arcs, and being in scenes where you're just being, as opposed to talking. That' one of my ambitions, lying ahead.
Gavin Rossdale
Bush
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My major ambition is just to stay relevant.
James Corden
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...
Michael Gurian
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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas Otway
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Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.
Michael Moorcock
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I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.
Eva Gabor
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When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.
Marian Keyes
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Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.
Anna Kendrick
