Ambition Quotes
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I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.
Ian Gillan -
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
Alfred P. Sloan
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Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.
Ha-Joon Chang -
And heaven had wanted one immortal song.But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
John Dryden -
The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.
Jack Kirby -
Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?
Nicolas Bouvier -
There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.
Kathleen Kennedy -
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
John Strachan
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Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
Bruce Forsyth -
How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
Tamra Davis -
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
Quintilian -
My ambition cannot be stopped!
Cao Cao -
The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
Fernando Torres -
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I never wanted to be an actress. I didn't have any ambition in that area.
Pattie Boyd -
My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.
Yogi Berra -
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Christian Nestell Bovee -
My role at the USTA allows me to fulfill my ambition to open up opportunities for people to play tennis that may not otherwise have a chance or an outlet to play.
Katrina Adams -
I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.
John Lithgow -
I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
Ian Fleming
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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
Vera Farmiga -
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
Walter Kirn -
Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!
Philip Schultz -
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
Charles Baudelaire