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Ambition Quotes
"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."
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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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"If you have the desire, passion and enthusiasm to do something, nothing in the world will stop you."
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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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"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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"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"
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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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"The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host."
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"I need a first-class reputation."
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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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"Simple dreams are the hardest to come true."
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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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"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
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"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
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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 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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"My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress."
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"As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman."
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"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."
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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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"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
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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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"Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth."
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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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"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
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"I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection."
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