1,853 Quotes About Ambition

  • Author Catherynne M. Valente
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    Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret.

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  • Author Higinio Velez
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    Hosting games in the next event is the maximum ambition that any country that loves baseball could have.

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  • Author Leonardo da Vinci
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    It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

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  • Author Paz Vega
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    My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

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  • Author Philip Virgo
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    The solution is to limit public sector ambition to that which can be reliably delivered given the human beings available and rebuild the available UK skills base, including user management and information systems - because technology is rarely the problem.

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  • Author Peter Varney
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    This decision is vital to the ongoing development of our football club and our ambition is to have a capacity of 40,600.

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  • Author Amy Winehouse
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    Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and I'd done all three since I was 9-years-old. I could sing, but I didn't become a great singer.

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  • Author Bill Wilson
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    True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

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