Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"Be realistic, demand the impossible!"
Ambition quotes
Ambition
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Meek Mill
Rapper
"Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It's a reminder to stay on top of my game. That's not a place I want to go back to."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career."
Julius Caesar
Military General, Statesman
"If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition."
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation"
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"We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may."
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"Big results require big ambitions."
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"By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition."
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"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
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"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all."
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"How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice."
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"Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer."
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"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
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"The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book."
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"I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office."
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"Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me."
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"You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for."
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"The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise."
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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends."
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"I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family."
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"My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future."
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"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power."
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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."
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"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."
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"We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests."
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