Ambition Quotes - Page 27

• I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.

  Tupac Shakur

  Want, No Fear, My Family

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• Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Thinking, Names

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.45, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

  Sade Adu

  People, Aspire, Picks

  "Sade soldiers on leisurely to keep love alive" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. August 24, 2011.

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• My ambition is always to get better and better.

  Lionel Messi

  Get Better, My Ambition

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• Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.

  Tory Burch

  Important, Titles, Want

  "Tory Burch Explains The Importance Of Having Male Mentors" by Meredith Lepore, www.businessinsider.com. April 23, 2014.

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• Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Exercise, Giving, Adaptive

  Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2014). “Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)”, p.320, Harvard Business Review Press

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• A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

  Neel Burton

  Teacher, Men, Degrees

  FaceBook post by Neel Burton from Jan 06, 2014

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• True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

  Ryan Holiday

  Humility, Resilience, Weakness

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.123, Profile Books

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• I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

  Corin Nemec

  Areas, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.

  Peter Hessler

  Pride, Organization, Keys

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• Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

  Emile Hirsch

  Important, Theatre, Would Be

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• Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

  Archie Panjabi

  Parent, Supportive, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

  Helen Reddy

  Girlfriend, Here I Am, People

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• I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Jealous, Thinking, Driven

  "Jonathan Rhys Meyers Talks Tudors, Sex and Jealousy". Parade Interview, parade.com. April 1, 2009.

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• I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

  Penelope Ann Miller

  Children, Married, Changed

  "‘The Artist’ Star Penelope Ann Miller: ‘It’s A Love Letter To Cinema’". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

  Alastair Humphreys

  Half, Tiptoes, Excitement

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• I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.

  Heber J. Grant

  Believe, Battle, Littles

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• Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Fun, Procrastination, Self

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• In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Men, Egalitarianism

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1005, Penguin

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• The one governmental agency that has no ambition.

  William O. Douglas

  Agency, Law

  William O. Douglas (1954). “An Almanac of Liberty”

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• Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

  Jenny Offill

  Looks, Coats, Way

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.65, Vintage

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• Rodgers & Hammerstein shows have a purity of unironic emotion that imprints itself upon people's hearts. They seem to touch our feelings so effortlessly. They have a scope and ambition that's missing from many musicals now.

  Mary Rodgers

  Heart, People, Missing

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• If i can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition i have is nothing but talk.

  Zoro

  Dream, Captains, One Piece

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• They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.

  Barack Obama

  Peaceful, Nuclear, Want

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• Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together.

  Colin Powell

  Iraq, Hatred, Together

  "Transcript of Powell's U.N. presentation". www.cnn.com. February 6, 2003.

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