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Ambition Quotes
"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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"The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition."
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"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
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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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"I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp."
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"I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top."
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"Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success."
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"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
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"Well, first I have to make the team, of course."
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"Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds."
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"I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it."
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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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"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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"Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity."
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"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition."
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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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"My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress."
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"Without drive you will never get anywhere in life."
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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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"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty."
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"Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust."
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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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"One day, I decided I was going to write books forever."
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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 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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"I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one."
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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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"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do."
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"That's what I'm trying, sir, getting my life."
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