Ambition Quotes - Page 31

• I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.

  Miles Teller

  Party, College, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Steer clear of pot. It's an ambition zapper. Wait till you've made it. When you're 45 buy a bong. But for now, buy a suit.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Waiting, Suits, Pot

  "Greg Gutfeld's advice for grads". www.foxnews.com. May 19, 2015.

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• People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.

  Tony Benn

  Creativity, Order, People

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• We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

  Vance Havner

  Self, Rose, Baptism

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• Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

  Criss Jami

  Motivational, Purpose, Lifestyle

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.83, Criss Jami

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• An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

  Criss Jami

  Encouragement, Moving, Independent

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.123, Criss Jami

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• As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

  Criss Jami

  New Beginnings, Eye, Breathing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

  Criss Jami

  Long, Pay, Facets

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.121, Criss Jami

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• Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Rescue, Ifs

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.52, Criss Jami

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• I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

  David Morrissey

  Journey, Discovery, Challenges

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• I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

  Louise Mensch

  Worst Enemy, Wish, Cabinets

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• I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

  Mike McGavick

  Political, Political Ambition, My Ambition

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• My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

  Samuel West

  Shipping, Forecasts

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• A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

  Fisher Ames

  Passion, Government, Leader

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames”, p.429

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• It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

  Mark Twain

  Jobs, Safe, Preacher

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.369, Courier Corporation

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• Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Character, Men, Political

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Goldhammer (2004). “Democracy in America”, p.297, Library of America

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• The difference between a confident person and an unconfident person is simply that the confident person acts on their ambitions and desires and doesn’t let fear of failure stop them.

  Katty Kay

  Differences, Desire, Fear Of Failure

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• The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Men, Acorns, Grows

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.7281, Delphi Classics

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• The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

  Criss Jami

  Crazy, Mad, Creative

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• It was always a wish for me to work in the Premier League. To work as a manager for Manchester United, the biggest club in the world, makes me very proud. I have managed in games at Old Trafford before and know what an incredible arena Old Trafford is and how passionate and knowledgeable the fans are. This club has big ambitions; I too have big ambitions. Together I'm sure we will make history.

  Louis van Gaal

  Games, League, Together

  "Spain, Netherlands will meet again in World Cup". Interview with Kevin Baxter, www.latimes.com. June 03, 2014.

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• To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Fighting, Suffering, Cry

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• I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

  Vagit Alekperov

  Indifferent, I Can

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• I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart into it, I am instantly into him. I like a strong man who can be in control and make decisions but who is sensitive and attentive. That is the perfect combination.

  Meaghan Rath

  Strong, Heart, Men

  "Get to Know Being Human's Meaghan Rath". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2011.

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• It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.

  Roger Staubach

  Okay

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• I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg

  Imagination, World, Lawyer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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