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Ambition Quotes

Work hard, take it seriously, embrace your ambition. And when you're not doing that, do something - whatever it happens to be - that taps into the part of you that makes you forget about all the rest of it.

Work Work Hard Ambition Rest Doing

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

Character Ambition Connection Bed Us

I do have ambition - I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine, but it's not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and travelling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise my acting is going to be false.

Caterina Murino

Life Shoes Dress Ambition My Life

When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.

Good Car Respect Job Ambition Plan

It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition would be levied and tenure denied. I've seen this first-hand.

Ambition American Suicide Early Seen

I had no ambition to become an actor at all.

Ambition Actor Become Had

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

Great Ambition Enjoyed Sportsman

I was not born with tremendous ambition.

Ambition Born Tremendous

From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.

Beginning Ambition Direction Real

I was happy when I got into film school. I'd simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in - nothing else - although I do believe they shouldn't have accepted me. I was a complete idiot. I can't understand why they took me. Probably because I'd tried three times.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

School Happy Me Ambition Believe

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn't realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Woman School Law Ambition Judge

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

Hero Ambition Start Think Hustle

I see myself as having fulfilled a lot of my ambition. All the things I dreamed of achieving, I've achieved for the most part.

Kerry James Marshall

Myself Ambition Achieving See I See

I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.

Ambition Same Younger Had

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Walter Savage Landor

Ambition Avarice

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.

Me Ambition Think Go My Own Own

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'

Ambition Soup Strategy You Back Go

The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

Character Ambition First Over Days

Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House.

Fear Politics Ambition Black Meaning

It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale of American fiction that would encompass all the American experience in one great book.

Great Experience Ambition Book White

I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Poetry Me Ambition Start Voice Poet

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Ambition Parent Virtue Vice Though

Marriage was never a dream or an ambition for me. I thank my real mother for the fact that - unlike my sitcom mother - she never put any pressure on me or my sister to marry.

Marriage Mother Me Ambition Sister

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Gratitude Ambition Blood Breaks Ties

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