Ambition Quotes - Page 19

• As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed.

  Eric Liddell

  Christian, Jesus, Challenges

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• The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

  Moliere

  Love, Dating, Romance

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• If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Achievement, Way, Imagine

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• To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Natural

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• Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Kind, Fame, Pursue

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.3

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• You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Passion, Pride

  Song: Vienna

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• I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone out there, especially everyone who dares to dream.

  Jorja Fox

  Dream, Grateful, Wish

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• You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

  Winston Churchill

  Mouths, Lions, Performances

  Winston Churchill (2013). “London to Ladysmith & Ian Hamilton's March”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• ... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

  Winston Churchill

  Exercise, Army, Thinking

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• I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

  Winston Churchill

  Play, Noble, Stakes

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• Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

  Price Pritchett

  Moving, Goal, Optimism

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• When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition to achieve that goal!

  Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler

  Giving Up, Goal, Anticipation

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• There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark rather than by any consistent political purpose, and that his attacks on Peel would have not have been so mounted had he been given in 1841 the office for which he had asked.

  Christopher Hibbert

  History, Office, Political

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• It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

  Joseph Story

  Spiritual, Pride, Government

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.702

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• At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.

  Henry Hill

  Age, President, United States

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• I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that right is on their side, and can therefore instigate such atrocities in the name of their own sense of right and wrong.

  Ralph Steadman

  Names, Race, Sides

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• The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or Samuel Goldwyn-- but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star.

  Marion Meade

  Stars, Son, Men

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• Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition

  Julian Baggini

  Real, Atheism, Succeed

  Julian Baggini (2003). “Atheism: A Very Short Introduction”, p.111, Oxford University Press

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• To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

  Norman O. Brown

  Ghost, Remembered

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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• I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Father, Believe

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• Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.

  Tom Rachman

  Love Life, Men, Civilization

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• It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who desires above all things to be aware of the final reward of her efforts, whose ambition is to be present, in full possession of her senses, when the infant she already adores greets her with its first loud cry and the soft touch of its restless body upon her limbs.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Mother, Agony, Effort

  Grantly Dick-Read (2006). “Childbirth Without Fear”, p.274, Pollinger in Print

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• Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is the erosion of ambition. The political goal presupposes the two others. The human characteristic required by statism is docility, which is the product of hopelessness and intellectual stagnation. Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, Erosion

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.229, Penguin

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• Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

  Carrie Fisher

  People, Drug, Reason

  "What I've Learned: Carrie Fisher" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Disappointment, Life Is, Achieve

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