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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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"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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"My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition."
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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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"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
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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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"Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking."
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"I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me."
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"The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity."
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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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"Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself."
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"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."
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"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
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"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
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"We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness."
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"Gravity is no match against one who is determined to reach the stars."
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"My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary."
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"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
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"Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success."
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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 bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition."
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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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"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
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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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"I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection."
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"You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book."
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