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Ambition Quotes
"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
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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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"If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book."
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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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"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 has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens."
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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'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection."
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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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"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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"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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"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
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"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."
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"They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it."
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"My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything."
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"My Dreams are not in my eyesMy Eyes are on my Dreams."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Know what you want. Pursue what you need. Realize what you ought. Attain what you desire."
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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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"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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"Are you busy proving your worth or living it? A critical distinction."
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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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"Gravity is no match against one who is determined to reach the stars."
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"You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question of time."
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"There is practically nothing in life you are set out to do that you cannot accomplish, it only takes you to make you."
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"The level of success you will experience can be predicted by looking closely at the sacrifices you are willing to make."
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