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Ambition Quotes

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

Joe R. Lansdale

Wife Ambition Succeed Better You

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

Ambition Nose May Willingness Number

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Best Ambition Self-Knowledge Tempered

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Work Live People Work Hard Ambition

I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.

Me Ambition Think Friends Wish You

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.

Terry Josephson

Ambition Way Never Get Inexperience

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Me Ambition Succeed Drive Attention

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

Jeremy Clarkson

Life Disappointment Ambition You

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

Live Hope Ambition Professional Read

I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

Collaboration Ambition Long Meet Why

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

Life Money I Am Ambition Society

I never wanted to be an actress. I didn't have any ambition in that area.

Ambition Never Actress Wanted Any

When I was 18 or 19, my one ambition was to make a film.

Ambition Film Make

If you want to make films, you'll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghetti. Same with somebody who has the ambition to play in the NBA. I watch a basketball game; I enjoy it. Somebody who really wants to learn to play is studying whatever is most magnificent that's going on out there.

Ambition Basketball Game Learn Enjoy

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

Leader Experience Ambition Win Party

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

Sheldon Jackson

Style Best Dress Ambition American

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

Humble Humility People Ambition Say

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Ambition Stage Mothers Share Thing

My ambition is to sit behind a desk and work.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Work Ambition Desk Sit Behind

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Music Ambition Innocence Early Kinds

I had this vague notion that one day I might be editor of 'Vogue China.' It was a bizarre ambition, as I didn't speak a word of Chinese. There were flaws in my plan, admittedly.

Day Ambition Speak Plan Flaws China

My one ambition is to play a hero.

Sessue Hayakawa

Hero Ambition Play

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

Mercy Otis Warren

Ambition Prey Turn Mankind Been

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

Ambition Speed Boxing Ring My Own

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