Ambition Quotes
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Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.
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You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.
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I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.
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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.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.
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I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.
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There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.
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It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.
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The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.
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I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.
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Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.
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I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.
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I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.
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If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
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It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
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There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.
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Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.
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In all of nature structure determines function. Yet many people consider the marathoner and football linebacker all to be just one composite human being, an athlete. The body must be used to determine its role in sport. 'My aim is to develop every individual according to his best potential, protect him from false ambition, the desire to be someone he never can be and, more important, never should be.'
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character.
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Ambition is the mind's immodesty.
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The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
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There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.
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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.
