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Ambition  Quotes
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

-Oscar Wilde

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As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

-Criss Jami

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I believe we are powerful, but we don’t use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

-Michael Jackson

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Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.

-Donald Trump

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At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

-Noel DeJesus

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Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest. To be this ploughman, to see my labours result in the furtherance of scientific progress, was the height of...

-Paul Sabatier

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I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other.

-William Shakespeare

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Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will be added in the next fifty years. Add together the dusty LOC volumes with the shiny new and forthcoming books,...

-Tony Reinke

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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

-Thomas Jefferson

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The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have, is to so live, and so improve himself in heart and brain, as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man. That is...

-Robert G.

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We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little...

-Susan Sontag

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When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them and your will see them dissolving in front of your eyes.

-Roopleen

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I just aspire to pick people up. That’s my ambition.

-Sade Adu

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Early morning mist ghosted along the Orm, trailing above the water, rising and twisting. Wide and sleek and almost silent, the river curled through the valley, curved almost to the doors of the stone-terraced cottages sunk tight in the moorland. As soon as he was beyond sight of the mill gates, Manny ran, his step...

-S.J. Wilkins

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Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.

-Sandra Chami

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One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

-Theodore Zeldin

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Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground

-Theodore Roosevelt

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

-Ralph Waldo

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After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I saw others experiencing it too, many denying, by the way, that any such thing existed. And finally I decided that I would make boredom my subject matter. That I’d study it. That I’d...

-Saul Bellow

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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

-Pearl Bailey

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Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.

-Steve Jobs

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Peace is the first casualty in every ambition.

-Sweety Shinde

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People – running from unhappiness, hiding in power – are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

-Richard Avedon

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Nein, die Schule hat keinen bestimmenden Einfluss auf meine Entwicklung gehabt. Die Schule hat von meinen besonderen Anlagen wohl instinktiv etwas gespürt, sie aber als obstinate Untauglichkeit gewertet und verworfen. Ein Lehrer drohte, zufällig nicht mir, sondern einem anderen Schüler, mit den Worten: “Ich werde dir deine Karriere schon verderben!” Am gleichen Tag las ich...

-Storm

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Today I will work when others procrastinate, I will confront my fears when others hide from theirs, and I will create solutions when others find excuses; today I refuse to allow my enemies to out work me.

-Noel DeJesus

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I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old…drunk on wine and candle fumes.Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air so as to entertain moths before...

-Roman Payne

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My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.

-Tariq Anwar

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As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that your hearts and your bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion should be her desire to make her life into poetry, surrendering...

-Roman Payne

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You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

-Roman Payne

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Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.

-Rafi Zabor

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Your problem is in thinking the sky’s the limit. Why set limits?

-Richelle E.

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You shouldn’t do that,” said Laura. “You could set yourself on fire.

-Margaret Atwood

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To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

-Johann Wolfgang

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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition’s hands.

-Lord Byron

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I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

-Liam Neeson

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Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I’ll stop saying, “It isn’t fair” about everything else.

-Lois Lowry

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Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

-Mary Shelley

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Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have ‘a dream’ sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.

-Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

-John Lubbock

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Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision.

-Nabil N.

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You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights. But any person who wants to make music, and doesn’t, is a goddamned fool.

-Jenna Woginrich

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Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.

-John Lanchester

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By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and...

-Murray Kempton

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Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

-Mae West

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The only way the weight of the world can break you down, is if you carry it the wrong way.

-Lionel Suggs

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A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I’m the tree in the forest that silently falls–when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]

-Kresley Cole

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It is never late, pursuit your ambitions.

-Lailah Gifty

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The will to dare, the power to act.

-Lailah Gifty

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Explore the wonders of different shades of colours. It is purely lovely.

-Lailah Gifty

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We were motivated by our mentors to go an extra mile.

-Lailah Gifty

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