Ambition Quotes
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I`ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Buddha
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day`s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
William Osler
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Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou
Charles Baudelaire
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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Oscar Wilde
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel
Edward Abbey
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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Bill Bradley
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"The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will no...
George Washington
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My first ambition was to be a writer. I have always been very interested in writing. But it seems to me that I have more capacity for telling a story with images. It seems I have more talent for filmmaking than for writing a novel, which is my dream. I ha...
Pedro Almodovar
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All of life`s questions and answers are in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). It`s about greed and ambition and paranoia and looking at the worst parts of yourself. When I was writing There Will Be Blood (2007), I would put "The Treasure of the Sier...
Paul Anderson
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[1964]: My one ambition has nothing to do with acting. I hope to establish a kennel near the ocean and raise prize Silver German Shepherd dogs. You see, I`m used to having a house to myself and can`t adjust to apartment dwelling and the closeness of well-...
Jim Hutton
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On every job you do, you`ve got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don`t think you necessarily learn them from other peo...
Ray Winstone
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I am not one of those people who would rather act than eat. Quite the reverse. My own desire as a boy was to retire. That ambition has never changed.
George Sanders
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When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It`s a wonderful life and I love it.
Jim Henson
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The stage was my prime interest. I had no ambition to be a film actor, and a screen career seemed unlikely to come my way. I`d done a stage adaption of "Great Expectations" before the war and this had been seen by David Lean and Ronald Neame. I went into ...
Alec Guinness
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I don`t really think that way. If I were to cross the river tomorrow, I`d think I had had as good a time here [on earth] as people could have. I`m enjoying the day and watching how things evolve. - Ambition
Nancy McKeon
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My ambition for many years was to be involved in work that was utterly compelling to me, regardless of the consequences. But I worried a lot as a young man about where such and such a thing might take me; you`re encouraged to think that way. You`re suppos...
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I thought it was fabulous. My next ambition is to get nominated for seven seconds, and, ultimately, I want to be nominated for a picture in which I don`t even appear. Interview with Associated Press Radio, 2004, regarding her Emmy nomination for her perfo...
Ellen Burstyn
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A woman, who shall remain nameless, said to me, `You`re going to love LA, Paul, because over here ambition is not a dirty word.` And I thought, `Well, you`ve named one of the things that I feel quite patriotic about.` It`s still a little bit embarrassing ...
Paul Bettany
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I`ve played the lot: a homosexual, a sadistic gangster, kings, princes, a saint, the lot. All that`s left is a Carry On film. My last ambition.
Richard Burton
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I`d rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don`t know what`s coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I`m working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don`t want to be like `Okay, I`...
Eva Green
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I have the ambition of a slug. I work when I need money, which is about once a year.
Susan Tyrrell
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I think ambition can be having something that you`re good at and love to do.
Hilary Duff
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[On Hollywood] "To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony."
Billie Burke
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All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they`ve all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.
Tobey Maguire
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I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there`s no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!
Helen McCrory
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I swore to myself that I`d make it through drive, ambition and hard work. I wanted to know I got it that way and not because of my bloodlines. And I think there is no question why I got where I am today. I`m pretty content. I have a motto: expect nothing ...
Emilio Estevez
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As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
Johnny Depp
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No, because I chose to have the childhood that I had. I was not pushed into the business by anything other than my own ambition and my own dream of wanting to act. And I think that even though I don`t have a bunch of cool stories about those great proms, ...
Tina Majorino
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I`m over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you`re in trouble. It`s like wanting to be married - you`ll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I`ve see...
Bill Murray
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