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Ambition Quotes
"I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition."
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"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."
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"My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition."
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"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."
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"The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers."
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"Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go."
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"When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
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"We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness."
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"I would rather make my name than inherit it."
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"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."
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"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."
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"If you are serious about your goals and you truly desire to achieve your dreams, you must write them down."
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"My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living."
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"His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web."
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"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
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"The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity."
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"I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition."
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"Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition."
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"My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach."
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"The petty man wants to use God for himself, the ambitious man wants God to use him for God."
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"What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan."
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"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
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"My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me."
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"Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity."
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"Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success."
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"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
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"I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way."
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