1,853 Quotes About Ambition

  • Author Chögyam Trungpa
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    There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.

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  • Author Daley Thompson
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    Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

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  • Author Derartu Tulu
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    It has always been my ambition to win this event. I have tried two or three times before but on this occasion I knew I was coming into the race injury-free.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.

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