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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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"Having an aim is the key to achieving your best."
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"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."
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"I would rather make my name than inherit it."
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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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"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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"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."
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"We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness."
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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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"Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition."
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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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"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
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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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"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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"The petty man wants to use God for himself, the ambitious man wants God to use him for God."
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"What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not."
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"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
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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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"Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition."
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"I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition."
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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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