Ambition Quotes

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Energy and persistence conquer all things. — Benjamin Franklin
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. — Sigmund Freud
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. — David Frost
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my… — Lady Gaga
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really… — Lady Gaga
For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system… — John Taylor Gatto
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. — Shakti Gawain
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? — Vincent Van Gogh
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. — Oliver Goldsmith
I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit. — Ashley Greene
There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to… — Dave Grohl
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and… — Bear Grylls
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. — Joseph Conrad
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul. — Mason Cooley
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. — Calvin Coolidge
I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition. — Jean-Francois Cope
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common… — Rachel Cusk
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. — Edward Dahlberg
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. — Salvador Dali
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily… — Salvador Dali
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition,… — Mitch Daniels
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life,… — Mos Def
I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice. — Mos Def

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