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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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"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 is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."
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"His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness."
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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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"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do."
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"Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition."
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"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."
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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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"The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition."
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"My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living."
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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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