Ambition Quotes - Page 21

• A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

  Robert K. Merton

  Vices, Virtue, Behavior

  Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1996). “On Social Structure and Science”, p.143, University of Chicago Press

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• Action often precedes the feeling.

  Zig Ziglar

  Feelings, Action

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Top Performance”, p.56, Baker Books

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• All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivation, Knowledge, Achievement

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.63, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

  Zig Ziglar

  Littles, Doing Nothing, Action

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from May 20, 2013

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• The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.

  Zig Ziglar

  Goal, Principles, Able

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• More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

  Hyman Rickover

  Limits, Common, Behavior

  Hyman Rickover's address to US Naval Postgraduate School, March 16, 1954.

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

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Order, Boxing

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• There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Persons

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• Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag of manipulative tricks or charismatic behaviors to advance your own personal interest, then people have every right to be cynical. But if your leadership flows first and foremost from inner character and integrity of ambition, then you can justly ask people to lend themselves to your organization and its mission.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Integrity, Character, Views

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• A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

  G. H. Hardy

  Leaving, Ambitious, Firsts

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• One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

  Samuel Dash

  Believe, Knowing, Careers

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• I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

  Taiye Selasi

  Writing, Eight, Four

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• Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Loyalty, Religious, Fear

  Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Bulfinch's Mythology”, p.378, Booklassic

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• I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.

  Ian Gillan

  Stupid, Faces, Day To Day

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Fighting, Years

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• Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Heart, Mind

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• All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

  Park Geun-hye

  Party, Groups, Facts

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• Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Retiring, My Ambition

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• I am still full of ambition.

  Jan Timman

  Stills

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• I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

  Meg Tilly

  Agents, Television

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• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

  Kim Campbell

  Giving Up, Betrayal, Pride

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Mean, Men

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• Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called "mountaintop employments of great value," we spend our time in digging a pit and then falling therein, so that our temporary joy may become a permanent and bitter loss.

  Sterling W Sill

  Time, Fall, Loss

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• Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Thug, Desire

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• To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Rainbow, Trying

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