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Ambition Quotes
"I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition."
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"My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify 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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"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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"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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"I would rather make my name than inherit it."
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"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."
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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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"Without drive you will never get anywhere in life."
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"Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition."
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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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"What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan."
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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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"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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"You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!"
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"This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle."
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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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"The petty man wants to use God for himself, the ambitious man wants God to use him for God."
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