Ambition Quotes
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust
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If you don’t have ambition, you shouldn’t be alive.
Aliko Dangote
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
Ilie Nastase
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I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.
Jason Priestley
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
Kate Bush
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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
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I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.
David Morrissey
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I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.
Carice van Houten
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I've been producing records, and as early as my late teens, early 20s, I put out a hip-hop record and then the Ringside stuff. You know, I just feel like I want to spend these years realizing all of my ambitions. I feel like we live in an age in which you can chase your dreams with focus and a vision.
Balthazar Getty
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There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty of the people, call it what you will - a doge, an avoyer, an archon, a president, a consul, a syndic; this becomes at once an object of ambition and dispute, and, in time, of division, faction, sedition, and rebellion.
John Adams
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One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
Jessye Norman
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I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
Jean-Francois Cope
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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
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I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.
Jeremy Irons
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And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.
Dorothy Dunnett
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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
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Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.
Jordin Sparks
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My ambition is limited to capturing something transient.
Berthe Morisot
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I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man.
Diego Della Valle
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My ambition cannot be stopped!
Cao Cao
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'It's not about money right now. My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
David Lee Roth Van Halen
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The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
Fernando Torres
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In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.
Alexandra Fuller