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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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"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do."
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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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"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 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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"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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"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty."
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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 so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."
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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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"I need a first-class reputation."
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"Simple dreams are the hardest to come true."
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"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
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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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"Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs."
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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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"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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"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 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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"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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"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 high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity."
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"Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself."
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"My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary."
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"If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book."
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"The only unreachable dream is the one you don't reach for."
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