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Ambition Quotes

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group Picture Quote #1

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens Picture Quote #1

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I’d place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs Picture Quote #1

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition Picture Quote #1

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust Picture Quote #1

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art Picture Quote #1

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition Picture Quote #1

In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don’t intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don’t have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people Picture Quote #1

I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller’s thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become,during his earlier years of a miller’s life Picture Quote #1

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider Picture Quote #1

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own Picture Quote #1

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born Picture Quote #1

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It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will Picture Quote #1

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it Picture Quote #1

Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases Picture Quote #1

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature! Picture Quote #1

It is admirable to die the victim of one’s faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one’s ambition Picture Quote #1

Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die Picture Quote #1

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Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate Picture Quote #1

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing Picture Quote #1

I’m no good at anything but comedy, which I think I’m good at. I’m absolutely no good at networking; I’m terrible at acting; I’m terrible at dealing with executives; I’m terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I’m good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don’t really have an ambition for money Picture Quote #1

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune Picture Quote #1

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general Picture Quote #1

I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there’s no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it! Picture Quote #1

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His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude Picture Quote #1

Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all Picture Quote #1

Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. But to ask an individual to break down doors that we have chained and bolted in advance of his arrival is unfair Picture Quote #1

He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes Picture Quote #1

And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me Picture Quote #1

All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You’ve got to find it on your own terms Picture Quote #1

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Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group (Ambition Quotes) Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens (Ambition Quotes) Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I’d place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs (Ambition Quotes) The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition (Ambition Quotes) Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust (Ambition Quotes) You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art (Ambition Quotes) Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition (Ambition Quotes) In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don’t intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don’t have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people (Ambition Quotes) I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller’s thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become,during his earlier years of a miller’s life (Ambition Quotes) If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider (Ambition Quotes) The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own (Ambition Quotes) The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born (Ambition Quotes) It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will (Ambition Quotes) If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it (Ambition Quotes) Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases (Ambition Quotes) Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature! (Ambition Quotes) It is admirable to die the victim of one’s faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one’s ambition (Ambition Quotes) Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die (Ambition Quotes) Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate (Ambition Quotes) Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing (Ambition Quotes) I’m no good at anything but comedy, which I think I’m good at. I’m absolutely no good at networking; I’m terrible at acting; I’m terrible at dealing with executives; I’m terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I’m good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don’t really have an ambition for money (Ambition Quotes) A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune (Ambition Quotes) My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general (Ambition Quotes) I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there’s no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it! (Ambition Quotes) His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude (Ambition Quotes) Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all (Ambition Quotes) Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. But to ask an individual to break down doors that we have chained and bolted in advance of his arrival is unfair (Ambition Quotes) He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes (Ambition Quotes) And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me (Ambition Quotes) All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You’ve got to find it on your own terms (Ambition Quotes)

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