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Ambition Quote by Jack McDevitt

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““...those whose tastes run to personal power [can] never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.””

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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

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One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

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I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's…

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A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions

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I'm hungry and ambitious.

Julen Lopetegui

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“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.”

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I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition…

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Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides.

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“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their…

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I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

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I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

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There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

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