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Ambition Quotes
"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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"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."
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"My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary."
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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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"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
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"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do."
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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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"I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind."
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"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
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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 wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us."
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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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"I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it."
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"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
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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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"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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"As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman."
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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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"My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living."
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"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition."
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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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"A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment."
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"The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book."
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"What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?"
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"It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all."
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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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"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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