Blind Ambition Quotes

• Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ambition, Intuition, Forget

  Song: Cowboy In The Jungle, Album: Son of a Son of a Sailor, 1978

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• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Ambition, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 16

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• Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.

  Jon Anderson

  Ambition, Power, Design

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• Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

  Lily Cole

  Motivation, Ambition, Keys

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

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• I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I'll stick to it.

  Katy Perry

  Ambition, Thinking, Way

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• We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Inspiration, Ambition, Play

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