Ambition Quotes
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People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.
Hillary Clinton
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The difference between a confident person and an unconfident person is simply that the confident person acts on their ambitions and desires and doesn’t let fear of failure stop them.
Katty Kay
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Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage.
Nayantara Sahgal
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If you’re calling her a floozy, I’m by way of being a bit of a floozy myself.” “Oh, Jared,” said Kami, who was well aware of his romantic experience, or total lack thereof. “You are not.” “Well, I have floozy ambitions.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story.
Harrison Ford
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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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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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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
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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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My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.
Andrew Forge
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
Vita Sackville-West
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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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My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become clear to see Jesus around us.
Mother Teresa
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Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
