#ambition

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living. ↗

— Graham Norton

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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. ↗

— Eden Phillpotts

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Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures. ↗

— Alessandro Del Piero

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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. ↗

— Elihu Root

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The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day. ↗

— Georg Solti

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Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#ambition #desire

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. ↗

— Allen Tate

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