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Tag Name "Ambition" (1429)

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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
Jodie Foster
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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.
Jarvis Cocker
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I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.
Craig Ferguson
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The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise.
Nicky Romero
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Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.
Satya Nadella
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This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.
Richard Koch
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Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to play the game as any other American and is opposed to anything that aids in the exclusion the face may be Africa, but the heart has the beat of Wall Street.
Chester Himes
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Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of lacking ambition.
Paulo Coelho
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We need a national ambition to build hundreds of thousands of new homes a year, both private and socially-rented - led by someone who will not take no for an answer and who will push for diggers in the ground and homes for all come what may.
Michael Gove
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A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.
Robert K. Merton
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To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.
Rosa Bonheur
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I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.
Norbert Leo Butz
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Don't take the will for the deed get the deed.
Lewis Mumford
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I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone out there, especially everyone who dares to dream.
Jorja Fox
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I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a living... My whole freedom working in photography comes because I say to myself, Let's see what is going on in this world. Let's find out. How do these people look?
Lisette Model
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There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.
Colleen McCullough
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It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
Vernon Howard
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
Allen Tate
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Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.
Francis Xavier
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We grow small trying to be great.
E. Stanley Jones
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