1,853 Quotes About Ambition


  • Author Ameen Rihani
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    The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

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  • Author Andy Robinson
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    It's very frustrating. The lads showed a lot of ambition in the first half, they went out to sustain it in the second but couldn't build on it.

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  • Author Ayn Rand
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    Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

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  • Author Ayn Rand
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    Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept.

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  • Author Bill Robinson
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    It's something we need to pass on. I have to thank my God for giving me the talent and ambition to pursue (it). I thank everyone that's been involved over the years.

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  • Author Bob Riley
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    Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

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  • Author Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'

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  • Author Elihu Root
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    Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

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