Ambition Quotes - Page 31

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

  Penelope Ann Miller

  Children, Married, Changed

  "‘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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• Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Fun, Procrastination, Self

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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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• Rodgers & Hammerstein shows have a purity of unironic emotion that imprints itself upon people's hearts. They seem to touch our feelings so effortlessly. They have a scope and ambition that's missing from many musicals now.

  Mary Rodgers

  Heart, People, Missing

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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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• They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.

  Barack Obama

  Peaceful, Nuclear, Want

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• Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together.

  Colin Powell

  Iraq, Hatred, Together

  "Transcript of Powell's U.N. presentation". www.cnn.com. February 6, 2003.

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• Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

  George W. Bush

  Missions, Daring, Afghanistan

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• It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.

  Abigail Spencer

  Careers, Goal, Healthy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do the right thing, that we will stand for the right cause, that we will be true to ourselves and to others. Then the pressures begin to build. Sometimes these are social pressures. Sometimes they are personal appetites. Sometimes they are false ambitions. There is a weakening of the will. There is a softening of discipline. There is capitulation. And then there is remorse, self-accusation, and bitter tears of regret.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Loyalty, Determination, Regret

  "And Peter Went Out and Wept Bitterly". General Conference, www.lds.org. April 1979.

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• There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

  Tory Burch

  Four, Letters, Embrace

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• Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

  John W. Davis

  Politics, Initiative, Passing

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• The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Father, Eye, Son

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

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• The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Way, Pushing, Middle

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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• Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Contentment, Fruit

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• An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator

  Jake Lodwick

  Design, Entrepreneur, Belief

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• I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Men, Moral, Well Being

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.44

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