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Ambition Quotes
"If you build castles in the air, make sure you have a ladder to reach them."
"His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web."
"The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity."
"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."
"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."
"Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically."
"I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top."
"The desire of most people on earth is to make money and money seems to be the greatest motivation in life for a lot of people."
"I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition."
"My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything."
"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."
"Making your mark in the world is better than making trouble."
"My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living."
"My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach."
"If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow."
"In order to bring down the great, you have to be able to reach the stars."
"When you reach the mountaintop look upand think of how high you must leap to reach the stars."
"The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition."
"Know what you want. Pursue what you need. Realize what you ought. Attain what you desire."
"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty."
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