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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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"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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"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 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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"I would rather make my name than inherit it."
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"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
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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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"The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity."
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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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"We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness."
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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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"Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself."
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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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"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing."
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"I need a first-class reputation."
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"Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success."
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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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"His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web."
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"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."
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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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