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Ambition Quotes
"Gravity is no match against one who is determined to reach the stars."
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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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"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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"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
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"Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition."
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"You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book."
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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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"My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress."
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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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"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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"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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"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
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"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens."
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"I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection."
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"Having an aim is the key to achieving your best."
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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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"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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"If you build castles in the air, make sure you have a ladder to reach them."
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"Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically."
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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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"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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"My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything."
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"Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object " we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering."
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"Know what you want. Pursue what you need. Realize what you ought. Attain what you desire."
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"I'm a little different to other women. Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore."
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"There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific."
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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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