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- Nov 07, 2020
Ambition Quotes
What ambition promises, and what it actually pays out.
This set treats ambition with some skepticism alongside encouragement - one line insists ambition is necessary even without guaranteed success, another calls it avarice dressed up. Related: Goal.
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- Over
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I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am still full of ambition.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.
- Finding
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- Nov 07, 2020
This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
- Rich
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover it's not what they wanted at all. I don't want to be rich.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am trying to write a play that is big and I feel represents me - that's my big ambition.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020