Ambition Quotes - Page 27

• The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Men, Acorns, Grows

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.7281, Delphi Classics

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• The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

  Criss Jami

  Crazy, Mad, Creative

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• It was always a wish for me to work in the Premier League. To work as a manager for Manchester United, the biggest club in the world, makes me very proud. I have managed in games at Old Trafford before and know what an incredible arena Old Trafford is and how passionate and knowledgeable the fans are. This club has big ambitions; I too have big ambitions. Together I'm sure we will make history.

  Louis van Gaal

  Games, League, Together

  "Spain, Netherlands will meet again in World Cup". Interview with Kevin Baxter, www.latimes.com. June 03, 2014.

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• To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Fighting, Suffering, Cry

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• I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

  Vagit Alekperov

  Indifferent, I Can

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• I don't think ambition was ever my strong suit. I always wanted to be successful, because you want to be good at what you do, but I've definitely always enjoyed playing a supporting part. I really enjoy the success of others.

  Selma Blair

  Strong, Successful, Thinking

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• Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Order, Age, Should

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.158, Routledge

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• One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.

  Mark Doty

  Mean, Silence

  "The lessons of objects: an interview with Mark Doty". Interview with Andrew David King, www.kenyonreview.org. December 12, 2012.

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• Action often precedes the feeling.

  Zig Ziglar

  Feelings, Action

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Top Performance”, p.56, Baker Books

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• Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

  Zig Ziglar

  Littles, Doing Nothing, Action

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from May 20, 2013

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• The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.

  Zig Ziglar

  Goal, Principles, Able

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• More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

  Hyman Rickover

  Limits, Common, Behavior

  Hyman Rickover's address to US Naval Postgraduate School, March 16, 1954.

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• One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

  Samuel Dash

  Believe, Knowing, Careers

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• All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

  Park Geun-hye

  Party, Groups, Facts

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• I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

  Meg Tilly

  Agents, Television

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• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

  Kim Campbell

  Giving Up, Betrayal, Pride

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Mean, Men

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• Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Giving, Made

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• 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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• America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Jesus, Selfish

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• Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.

  Chris Huhne

  Giving, Climate, Would Be

  "Defying climate deal like appeasing Hitler-UK minister" by Peter Griffiths, af.reuters.com. July 21, 2011.

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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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