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• Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

  Sam Abell

  Distance, Believe, Long

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• For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.

  Johnny Depp

  Dream, Dirty, Hunger

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• Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

  Joshua Reynolds

  People, Exhibitions, Royal

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.86

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• On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

  Raymond Williams

  Country, Powerful, Communication

  Raymond Williams (1975). “The Country and the City”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one.

  Philip Guston

  Color, Drawing, Painting

  Magdalena Dabrowski, Philip Guston (1988). “The drawings of Philip Guston”

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• We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

  Pierre Pettigrew

  Iran, Hatred, Nuclear

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• I believe that no matter how many mistakes we’ve made; how badly we’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected we’ve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.

  Dave Pelzer

  Mistake, Believe, Opportunity

  Dave Pelzer (2010). “Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.

  Loretta Young

  People, Hunger, Enjoy

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• As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly.

  Justin Hayward

  Moving, Want Something, Realizing

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• Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Reality, Air, Hot

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• I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Science, College, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Real, Men, Restless

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• I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

  Patsy Cline

  My Own, Captives

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• I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Baseball, Player, Long

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• Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even open warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda... propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.

  Marcus Garvey

  Self Confidence, Race, Suffering

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• Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.

  William Osler

  Past, Energy, Each Day

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• The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Eye, Men, Our Generation

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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• I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

  Walter Cronkite

  Ego, Becoming

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• In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our Asian friends resist that ambition. Sometimes our folks get a little impatient. Sometimes they rattle their rockets some, and they bluff about their bombs. But we are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Boys, Ambitious

  Speech at Akron University, Akron, Ohio, 21 Oct. 1964

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• Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.

  Pythagoras

  Philosophy, Discovery, Names

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• If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.

  Hippocrates

  Wish, Sake, Lectures

  Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter (1923). “Hippocrates”

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• We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Hate, Yoga

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• I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.

  Ronda Rousey

  Girl, Mma, Ambitious

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• Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

  Dolly Parton

  Work, Kitchen, Trying

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• At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto something that was bigger, different than anything I had ever imagined, which was actually being involved with other people. I just don't live the average artist's life.

  El-P

  Artist, Average, People

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. May 8, 2007.

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