Ambition Quotes - Page 23

• Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.

  Bela Lugosi

  Character, Roles, Actors

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

  Thomas Keneally

  Art, Abandon

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• Perhaps the most reliable route to meaning and joy, to plunging below the surface and seeking more than the superficiality of material ambition, is connection with people, places, ideas and issues. Of these, the most important are people and relationships. And the most reliable route to relationships is conversation.

  Michael Short

  Communication, Media, Ideas

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• I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Beautiful, Mean, Ties

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• Take ones adversity
  Learn from their misfortune
  Learn from their pain
  Believe in something
  Believe in yourself
  Turn adversity into ambition
  Now blossom into wealth

  Tupac Shakur

  Pain, Believe, Adversity

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• Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

  Alan Cohen

  Feel Good, Recognition, Feels

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Never allow anyone to take YOUR spirit away from you.

  Khloe Kardashian

  People, Trying, Spirit

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• Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.

  Arianna Huffington

  Careers, Matter, Code

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• I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.

  Tupac Shakur

  Want, No Fear, My Family

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• Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Thinking, Names

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.45, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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

  Sade Adu

  People, Aspire, Picks

  "Sade soldiers on leisurely to keep love alive" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. August 24, 2011.

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• A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

  Neel Burton

  Teacher, Men, Degrees

  FaceBook post by Neel Burton from Jan 06, 2014

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• True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

  Ryan Holiday

  Humility, Resilience, Weakness

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.123, Profile Books

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• I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

  Corin Nemec

  Areas, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

  Emile Hirsch

  Important, Theatre, Would Be

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• Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

  Archie Panjabi

  Parent, Supportive, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

  Helen Reddy

  Girlfriend, Here I Am, People

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• I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Jealous, Thinking, Driven

  "Jonathan Rhys Meyers Talks Tudors, Sex and Jealousy". Parade Interview, parade.com. April 1, 2009.

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• I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.

  Heber J. Grant

  Believe, Battle, Littles

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• In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Men, Egalitarianism

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1005, Penguin

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• The one governmental agency that has no ambition.

  William O. Douglas

  Agency, Law

  William O. Douglas (1954). “An Almanac of Liberty”

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• If i can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition i have is nothing but talk.

  Zoro

  Dream, Captains, One Piece

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• Flesh and blood,
  You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
  Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-
  Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong-
  Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,
  Unnatural though thou art.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Strong, Brother

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.18

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• You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A reality shaped around your own desires - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

  Zadie Smith

  Strong, New York, Reality

  "Zadie Smith On Manhattan’s ‘Sociopathic’ Ambition" By Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2014.

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• A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth
  her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Heart, Adventure, Soul

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.246

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