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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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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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My ambition is to be the best I can be.
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Ambition is a very good quality to have. Ambition and the competitive spirit go hand in hand.
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There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.
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Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.
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My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be.
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Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.
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I have to make sure I stay focused and have the same ambition I've always had and work hard - that's the key to success.
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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
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Had I not been Roddy Llewellyn, I don't suppose anyone would have bothered to take an interest in my ambition to make a record.
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