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Ambition Quotes
"I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp."
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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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"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 had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it."
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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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"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty."
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"I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused."
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"My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living."
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"My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary."
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"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do."
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"Having an aim is the key to achieving your best."
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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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"It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement."
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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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"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."
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"What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no 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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"I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one."
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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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"Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions."
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"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition."
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"Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself."
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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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"Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any goal he set himself, however rarified and dazzling, even if it were folly for anyone else to even consider it."
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"You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out."
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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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"Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens."
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"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."
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"But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency."
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