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Ambition Quotes
"Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition."
"To dream doesn't cost you much, so dream. To hope doesn't cost you much, so hope. To yearn doesn't cost you much, so yearn; but to succeed costs you everything, so persevere."
"Set goals, pursue them, achieve them, and then surpass them."
"I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp."
"Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust."
"You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book."
"The great take steps to success, the extraordinary take leaps to success, and the remarkable take flight to success."
"Step up your game and success will step up to you."
"Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions."
"Success is yours if you are willing to pursue it to the ends of the earth."
"Having an aim is the key to achieving your best."
"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
"I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me."
"It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement."
"Not only can you decide to be great, you also have the power to determine the height of your greatness."
"Be a dreamer. Be a doer. Be a perseverer. Be a winner."
"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing."
"I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go."
"I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind."
"The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book."
"If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything."
"My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me."
"The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have."
"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
"What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not."
"The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host."
"The ordinary build houses when they have bricks, the extraordinary build mansions when they have pebbles."
"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."
"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."
"What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?"
"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."
"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
"You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out."
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