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Ambition Quotes
"I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren't willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will."
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"To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations."
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"If I am always standing at the bottom of the mountain longingly looking up, in all probability it is because I have heeded the pillaging dogma of mediocrity which persistently tells me that the dream is not worth the climb."
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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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"Excellence is the rocket that carries you to the stratosphere of success."
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"I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth."
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"Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion."
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"This is no place for limits."
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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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"The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave."
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"There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams."
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"Life is really generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend."
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"Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much."
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"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."
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"I've always been driven, unfortunately not always in the right direction."
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"A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way."
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"You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you."
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"I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go."
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"It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships."
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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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"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."
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"An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast."
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"When you reach the mountaintop look upand think of how high you must leap to reach the stars."
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"...I say to you, without pleasure, that this son of ours will be a great man, because -- well -- because he is not very intelligent. He can see only one desire at a time. I said he tested his dreams; he will murder every dream with the implacable arrows of his will. This boy will win to every goal of his aiming; for he can realize no thought, no reason, but his own. And I am sorry for his coming greatness..."
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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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"If your dream is accepted by all, you don't have a big enough dream. Big dreams challenge the status quo."
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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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"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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"Why only gaze at the stars? Catch one!"
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"I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future."
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"She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved."
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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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"I could not break records, so I decided to shatter them."
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"A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best."
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"You should always be challenging yourself to see how high you can elevate yourself above the masses."
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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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"The world was in the hands of those who had courage to dream and to realize their dreams."
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