My Ambition Quotes - Page 9

• The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.

  Jack Kirby

  Ambition, Average, Opposites

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

  Venus Williams

  Ambition, Want, Enjoy

  "What planet is she on?" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2002.

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• My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Ambition, Community, Grows

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• I had always drawn, every day as long as I had held a pencil, and just assumed everyone else had too…Art had saved me and helped me fit in…Art was always my saving grace…Comedy didn’t come until much later for me. I’ve always tried to combine the two things, art and comedy, and couldn’t make a choice between the two. It was always my ambition to make comedy with an art-school slant, and art that could be funny instead of po-faced.

  Noel Fielding

  Art, Ambition, School

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• It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Ambition, Effort

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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• Jesus, all for Jesus, all I am and have and ever hope to be. All of my ambitions, hopes and plans, I surrender these into Your hands... For it's only in Your will that I am free.

  Robin Mark

  Christian, Jesus, Ambition

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• By just passing through things, I continue to slightly limit myself. I want the jobs that don't say that much. I'm often the stepping stone or the conduit from one thing to another. I love the idea of existing in a film and growing and having bigger arcs, and being in scenes where you're just being, as opposed to talking. That' one of my ambitions, lying ahead.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Jobs, Lying, Ambition

  Source: collider.com

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• If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live with the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sort of things. That's the only time I think we really leave a great legacy.

  Rich Mullins

  Ambition, Thinking, Legacy

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• There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.

  Trevor Phillips

  Running, Real, Ambition

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• My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

  Paz Vega

  Ambition, Years, House

  "Viva La Vega". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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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

  Ambition, Age, President

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• On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

  Dervla Murphy

  Children, Ambition, India

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• It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Masters, Spoken Word

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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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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• Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we can worship, but not touch; a wild desire, that, in the madness of the thought, soars higher in its dignity, and leaves me weeping in the dust.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Dream, Stars, Ambition

  William Batchelder Greene (1871). “Imogen: And Other Poems”, p.65

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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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• 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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• If I wish to be well in my mind, then I must write, and there is no cure for my ambition, and thank the Lord for that.

  Sally O'Reilly

  Writing, Ambition, Mind

  Sally O'Reilly (2014). “Dark Aemilia”, p.107, Myriad Editions

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• My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.'

  Pete Hamill

  Book, Ambition, Weather

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• All I can say is that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

  George Jung

  Ambition, Talent, I Can

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• My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

  Mason Cooley

  Ambition, Successful, Careers

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• My ambition for station was always easily controlled. If the place came to me it was welcome. But it never seemed to me worth seeking at the cost of self-respect, or independence. My family were not historic; they were well-to-do, did not hold or seek office. It was easy for me to be contented in private life. An honor was no honor to me, if obtained by my own seeking.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Ambition, Self, Office

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• It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

  William Faulkner

  Ambition, Leaving, Individual

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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• My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American.

  Jack Kirby

  Ambition, Perfect

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself and to see that in the midst of all my ambition and desire to succeed and my search for approval, I do give things to people. I bring some sort of happiness to their lives. So I'm not so hard on myself anymore.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Ambition, People, Giving

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