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Ambition Quotes

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

Work Friend Ambition Doing Late Had

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

Life Struggle Wife Ambition Desire

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

Emmanuelle Beart

Football Ambition Want Circus Little

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

Talent Teen Ambition Thought Choose

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Ambition Touch She Her Fingers Well

Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of Carlo Collodi's fairy tale about the wooden puppet whose only ambition was to be a real live boy was sneaked into theaters Christmas Day.

Live Faith Day Ambition Fairy Tale

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

Good Marriage Ambition Hollywood

His ambition for victory sets Mourinho apart. He wants to win every game, so he prepares all the smallest details; in training, at the game, everything. I loved to work with him.

Work Training Ambition Win Victory

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Love Music Passion Ambition Friends

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love Ambition Own Successful Prize

If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

Work History Ambition Black You Go

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Ambition Sense Origin Inferiority

I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work.

Work Ambition Doing Enjoy Acting

The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

Fernando Torres

Competition Ambition Champions Play

I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count with a swim in the men's pond. It's an ambition of mine to swim in the ponds on every day of the year.

Live Time Day Men Ambition Year

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

People Ambition Thought Attention

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

Live Together Me Ambition Black See

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Ambition Universe Perfect Harmony

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Patriotism Ambition Patriot Same

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

Anthony Trollope

Improvement Ambition World Parent

I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.

Ambition Book Beyond Publish Simply

The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beautiful and great ambition: one that Seneca, Nietzsche and Tolstoy would have sympathised with.

Alain de Botton

Life Change Beautiful Great Ambition

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

Arthur Koestler

Time Ambition Ten Years Years Trade

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Power Ambition Desire

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