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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to score more goals; the main ambition is goals.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would have been naive to believe that it's an easy job to become the undisputed No. 1 at Barcelona, but that's my target, and it's something I will tackle with all my ambition.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is a big ambition, but I still have a professional wrestling world to conquer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, 'What is your ambition?' He said, 'I want to have 10 very good suits.'
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020