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Ambition Quotes
"If you have the desire, passion and enthusiasm to do something, nothing in the world will stop you."
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"My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity."
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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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"You can't attack the giants in your life, if you are not aiming to strike and hit the target. You can't run a race in vain, if you have no plans to win or finish it. Start, strive and aim high...never give up. Your best is yet to come!"
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"The promise of aspiration is that it is evolutionary. The human condition is such that we are always aspiring to be something more, something better, something nobler. It starts as a thought, a want, a need, or a desire and then grows and evolves with intention and direction, upward with lust and hunger. The continued drive feeds the rise."
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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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"What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?"
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"Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself."
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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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"Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth."
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"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"
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"What do you have in mind? It was too dark for her to see his smile, but she could hear it in his voice. Probably too many things for the amount of time that we've got, but you never know. I'm an ambitious man."
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"While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat complacently at the centre and let life come to him - so much of it, evidently, that he could not keep track of his appointments."
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"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."
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"Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs."
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"Goals and dreams are the entrepreneur's mental energy. However, the same goals and dreams that drive his behavior will also drive him to an early grave if he doesn't take care of his physical energy through a mix of exercise and relaxation. Energy manipulation is the ability to feed the mind with dreams and sustain the body so it will keep up with those dreams."
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"My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary."
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"I need a first-class reputation."
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"When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write."
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"As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman."
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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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"Now here you see it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
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"The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host."
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"We are bastards of the gods, Sorvus, you and I. I once shared the dream you seem to think you are now living. The dream of living here, in Northbrook, the birthplace of our mothers.' Thais turned his head to the trees. He heard something. 'Such deception."
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"If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything."
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"The only unreachable dream is the one you don't reach for."
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