My Ambition Quotes - Page 10

• My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Ambition, Army, Duty

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• Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Ambition, Mind, Remember

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• It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Memories, Ambition, Thinking

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• As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.

  Arjun Rampal

  Running, Children, Ambition

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• When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"

  Neil Peart

  Ambition, Play, Battle

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose.

  Rick Warren

  Dream, Ambition, Self

  Rick Warren (2004). “What on Earth Am I Here For?”

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• My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

  David Lee Roth

  Ambition, Signatures, Sound

  "Jumping at the Chance - With His Newest Album, David Lee Roth Rocks, Rolls and Moves On". Sacramento Bee, July 03, 1994.

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• I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

  Taiye Selasi

  Writing, Ambition, Eight

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• The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Ambition, Doe

  "Twilight of the Idols".

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• My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

  Van Morrison

  Ambition, Play, Two

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• I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

  Ella Maillart

  Depressing, Ambition, Weakness

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• My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

  Jon Landau

  Ambition, Records, Producers

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• 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.

  Panayiotis Zavos

  Work, Ambition, People

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• If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

  Idris Elba

  Ambition, Math, White

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• I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

  Penelope Ann Miller

  Children, Ambition, Married

  "‘The Artist’ Star Penelope Ann Miller: ‘It’s A Love Letter To Cinema’". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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• The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Inspiration, Ambition

  Swami Vivekananda (196?). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”

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• My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.

  Jonas Salk

  Ambition, Science, Thinking

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• I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books was, well frankly, to get reviewed. A lot of children's books don't even get reviewed.. forget good review, bad review. Personally, no, I never expected to be in the papers so it's an odd experience when it happens to you .

  J. K. Rowling

  Success, Children, Book

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• My ambition is peace and perfection.

  DeForest Kelley

  Ambition, Perfection

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• I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear.

  Herbert

  Ambition, People, Listening

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2006.

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• Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

  Anna Held

  Congratulations, Ambition, May

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• I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.

  John McCain

  Running, Ambition, Political

  John McCain, Mark Salter (2002). “Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir”, p.353, Random House

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• That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

  Jock Sturges

  Ambition, People, Interesting

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• As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

  Lynn Davies

  Sports, Athlete, Ambition

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• My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

  Juliette Binoche

  Beautiful, Ambition, Encounters

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