Ambition Quotes
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I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.
Rebecca Wells -
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
Bob Marley
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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.'
William Herbert Sheldon -
The results are in great need greater ambition.
Heraclitus -
You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success.
Eddie Arcaro -
I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.
Saul Leiter -
Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.
Richard Lamm -
I've always had the ambition to win a lot of trophies.
Riyad Mahrez
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I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
George Eliot -
You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.
Erol Alkan -
For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.
Johnny Depp -
I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.
Heber J. Grant -
The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
Philip Seymour Hoffman -
Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.
Jimmy Buffett
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle -
I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.
Heather Bresch -
My great passion and most importantly my ambition was my drive and desire to go bigger and bigger along the way.
Zuhair Murad -
Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.
John McCain -
Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.
Bruce Sterling -
In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential...Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.
Renee Fleming
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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable in it are diligence, discipline, ambition, and a willingness to take risks. Education and credentials are most important in government; elsewhere most skills are learned on the job.
George Gilder -
It's sad, because he just doesn't have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter — which should be enough but doesn't seem to be enough in this case.
Ryan Gosling -
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
Seneca the Younger