1,853 Quotes About Ambition
- Author Todd Haynes
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It's hard to transport myself forward in time, and the scarcity of opportunity back then kind of fueled my ambition. But back in my day, every family I knew had a Super 8 camera, and that's what I first picked up. We adapt to the technology we have available. But for the kids of today, they can really make something great with what is available.
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- Author Vance Havner
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We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.
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- Author Warren G. Harding
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Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
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- Author Werner Herzog
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Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
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- Author Werner Herzog
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If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
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- Author William Hague
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Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
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- Author Zora Neale Hurston
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The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
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- Author Zora Neale Hurston
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When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
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- Author Eric Idle
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Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.
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