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Ambition Quotes
"The shrewd hunt foxes, the strong hunt lions, but the mighty hunt elephants."
"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."
"Stay with your passion but have a philosophy that is beyond your strength so that you can have a legacy, even a legacy that will outlast you."
"Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself."
"Gravity is no match against one who is determined to reach the stars."
"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."
"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."
"My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary."
"Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition."
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
"There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific."
"I would rather make my name than inherit it."
"I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition."
"The sky's dangers offer the eagle more opportunities than the nest's comfort."
"Don't let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams, lions have little in common with sheep."
"I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way."
"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens."
"The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave."
"I could not break records, so I decided to shatter them."
"Strive to be more than number one-strive to be the greatest number one."
"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do."
"I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it."
"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
"A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment."
"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
"I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection."
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