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Ambition Quotes

What ambition promises, and what it actually pays out.

This set treats ambition with some skepticism alongside encouragement - one line insists ambition is necessary even without guaranteed success, another calls it avarice dressed up. Related: Goal.

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My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

Quotes by Adrian Grenier

9

In my younger days, sometimes family and personal life came second to my ambition.

Quotes by Adebayo Akinfenwa

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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

Quotes by Adam Ant

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Winning an official World Cup with the South African team had become my burning ambition.

Quotes by AB de Villiers

Dream Quotes

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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Quotes by A. C. Benson

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When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

Quotes by Yash Chopra

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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Quotes by Wilson Mizner

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Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.

Quotes by William Ernest Henley

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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

Quotes by Wilfred Owen

Drive Quotes

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If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

Quotes by Whitfield Diffie

A verse-style entry warns that ambition's reward is often just fleeting power and fame before a grave; a more personal quote recalls a single college-era dream of directing. See Dream or Drive.