Ambition Quotes

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Bono

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I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.

Carice van Houten

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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Alexander Hamilton

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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Anthony Trollope

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Reading interviews with other people, I see them say, 'All I want is for our band to be massive', but it was never an ambition of ours to be in a band that's this big. That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling. There's nothing wrong with being ambitious, but we're not.

Dan Smith

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It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

Alan Hansen

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Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Aslan Maskhadov

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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

Eden Phillpotts

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In Washington, Senator Paul has put his own ambition ahead of Kentuckians and is behind policies that would hurt Kentucky families.

Jim Gray

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If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

Whitfield Diffie

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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Wilson Mizner

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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Barack Obama

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One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

Jessye Norman

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My message to students is that if you want to become an entrepreneur and save the world, definitely don't skip college. But go to a school that you can afford. You'll be freed from the chains of debt and succeed on your own ambition and merit.

Vivek Wadhwa

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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

Jennifer Ehle

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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Samuel Johnson

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Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Susan Sontag

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When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.

Andrew Haigh

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I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

Paul Ryan

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What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?

Pete Wentz

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Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.

John McCain

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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

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My ambition is to be happy.

Penelope Cruz

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