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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: 'For the next five months you'll be working for us, for goals we shall determine. Is that clear? After May 5 you may look after your own needs and ambitions, but report back to us next January. Now move along.' ... If nearly half of what you make is spent by someone else, that means that half your work time is spent working for someone else. Call me a radical, but I think that comes dangerously close to being a form of indentured servitude.

You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A reality shaped around your own desires - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

Flesh and blood,_x000D__x000D_You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,_x000D__x000D_Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-_x000D__x000D_Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong-_x000D__x000D_Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,_x000D__x000D_Unnatural though thou art.

Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together.

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die - and I go on, non-stop, going forward with life. Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

If i can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition i have is nothing but talk.