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Ambition Quotes
"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 only unreachable dream is the one you don't reach for."
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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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"Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs."
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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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"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'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection."
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"If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book."
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"They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it."
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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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"Without drive you will never get anywhere in life."
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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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"Gravity is no match against one who is determined to reach the stars."
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"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens."
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"The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book."
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"My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything."
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"We are bastards of the gods, Sorvus, you and I. I once shared the dream you seem to think you are now living. The dream of living here, in Northbrook, the birthplace of our mothers.' Thais turned his head to the trees. He heard something. 'Such deception."
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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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"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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"If you build castles in the air, make sure you have a ladder to reach them."
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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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"From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short."
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"I could not break records, so I decided to shatter them."
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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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"Life is really generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend."
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"Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically."
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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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"The desire of most people on earth is to make money and money seems to be the greatest motivation in life for a lot of people."
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"There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something."
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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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