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Ambition Quotes
"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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"The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host."
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"As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman."
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"Self - critical thoughts and detrimental predictions about yourself have a huge impact on our mood/feelings. It affects our attitude, decisions and behavior. They ensure our self - esteem stays low and can create physical illnesses."
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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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"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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"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
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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 last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and plotted flames."
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"They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it."
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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 have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame."
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"I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection."
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"Are you busy proving your worth or living it? A critical distinction."
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"If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure."
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"My Dreams are not in my eyesMy Eyes are on my Dreams."
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"It was Tigerstar's ambition that destroyed him. If he had been willing to wait for power to come to him, he would've been the greatest leader in the forest."
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"When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up."
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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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"You tend to become like that, what you want most. Its up to you to make it happen. Expect the best and work for the best. Dedicate yourself and make your life happen with determination."
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"Know what you want. Pursue what you need. Realize what you ought. Attain what you desire."
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"Because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing."
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"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."
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"Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court.""And why is that?""Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience-only much more convincingly."
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"My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan 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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"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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"A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches."
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"What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."
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"Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance. In the fair city of this vision, there were airy galleries from which the loves and graces looked upon him, gardens in which the fruits of life hung ripening, waters of Hope that sparkled in his sight. A moment and it was gone. Climbing to a high chamber in a well of houses, he threw himself down in his clothes on a neglected bed, and its pillow was wet with wasted tears."
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"Professional success is only partial success."
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"The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for."
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