My Ambition Quotes - Page 11

• The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

  Willa Cather

  Girl, Ambition, Facts

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, p.368, U of Nebraska Press

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• I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

  David Byrne

  New York, Ambition, Artist

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• My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Ambition, Special, Want

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• You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

  Kit Williams

  Beautiful, Art, Ambition

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• To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

  Josephine Hart

  Ambition, Winning, Games

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

  Don Marquis

  Humble, Ambition, Cockroaches

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.256, Penguin

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• I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Ambition, Faithful

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

  Ilie Nastase

  Jobs, Ambition, Good Job

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• My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Ambition, Support, Important

  "Architect of Optimism". Interview with Angel Gurria-Quintana, www.ft.com. April 13, 2007.

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• All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

  Charles Cotton

  Spring, Ambition, Blessing

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• I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die - and I go on, non-stop, going forward with life. Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

  Bruce Lee

  Regret, Ambition, Done

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.25, Tuttle Publishing

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• Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Ambition, Simple, Should Have

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Ambition, Scales

  "Q&A with T. Boone Pickens". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.

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• Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

  Michael Schumacher

  Ambition, Style, Just Being

  "No Pressure to Quit Insists Schumacher". www.dailymail.co.uk. September 13, 2006.

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• When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

  Amos Oz

  Growing Up, Book, Ambition

  Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

  Lady Gaga

  Funny, Dream, Stars

  "Readers recommend: songs about ambition" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2015.

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• My ambition was to live like music.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Music, Ambition

  Mary Gaitskill (2013). “Veronica”, p.33, Vintage

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• Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Ambition, Climbing, Practice

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• I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

  Lady Gaga

  Dream, Art, Ambition

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• The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". Speech at the United Nations, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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