Ambition Quotes
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I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'
Eva Green
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My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
Ravi Shankar
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I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.
Mike Tice
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My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition to achieve that goal!
Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
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Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.
Harrison Ford
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Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.
Gene Autry
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And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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The amount of guilt you deal with as a parent is pretty profound. It's a constant balancing act. I'm an ambitious person, but when I became a father, ambition had a different hold on me. Providing for my kids was important, but the superficial ambition drifted away.
Jim Gaffigan
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
Vita Sackville-West
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You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don't waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big... Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.
Caroline Myss
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One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
Thomas Sowell
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No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.
Trenton Lee Stewart
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All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
Charles Cotton
