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Tag Name "Ambition" (1429)

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A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.
Leah Stewart
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Satisfaction is the death of ambition.
Nikki Yanofsky
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Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.
Cory Booker
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Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.
William Shakespeare
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Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters soon it will fall, in the course of centuries--that is, tomorrow. . . . In good time we shall only have to deal with reason.
Georges Bizet
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Joan Rivers is a very wise lady. We're good friends, and I find her very much an inspiration as to how to conduct your life, and how to remain very youthful, with ambitions and dreams. Anyway, she always says that she says yes to everything, because you never know which thing will click, or be thrilling.
Charles Busch
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If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole.
Russell Brand
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
Seneca the Younger
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My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
Rafe Spall
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In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.
Christopher Hitchens
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I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.
Vivienne Westwood
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The vague torment of ... ambition.
Emile Zola
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Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.
Alessandro Del Piero
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Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.
John McCain
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If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.
Shantanu Narayen
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It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.
Matthew Weiner
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My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.
Michael Strahan
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Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.
Laurence Sterne
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All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.
Mary Oliver
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Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know.
John J. Geddes
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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.
Plato
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The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Sometimes, it is best to listen, ask the super question, for ambition is hustle.
Raheem Devaughn
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
Lajos Kossuth
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