- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- No Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no sense of having reached some goal because I was an etoile at the Paris Opera. My ambition, if you can call it that, was to discover and learn and be excited by what I was doing. If I didn't have that, I would find it elsewhere.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
A burning ambition of mine is to take Scotland to a major tournament. It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup finals with their country.
- Clue
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't look in the mirror and see a president of the United States. I don't have that ambition.
- Australia
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- Nov 07, 2020
With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most of my career, I've known what it's like to be in the audience and to enjoy what I'm seeing but still have the ambition to say, 'I can do that, I know I can do that. And I want to do that, and I can't wait for that to happen.'
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020