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Ambition Quotes
"No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail."
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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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"Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life."
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"Gravity is no match against one who is determined to reach the stars."
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"The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave."
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"Grind until you get it no matter what the haters say and never look back, keep striving cause its your life."
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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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"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."
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"This is no place for limits."
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"Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom."
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"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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"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 also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated."
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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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"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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"Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much."
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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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"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."
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"Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion."
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"I've always been driven, unfortunately not always in the right direction."
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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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"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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"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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"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."
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"It is how hard you want, what you want that gets it."
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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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"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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