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“The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.”
“I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to the customer what the ambition of their restaurant is. Not only the typeface and the de...”
“I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a ha...”
“Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.”
“'Chef' is a dish of arroz con pollo served with a smile but not much style. The critic in the film would give it a low grade, for agreeability without ambition.”
“I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.”
“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”
“When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.”
“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”
“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”
“When that the poor have cried Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man.”
“If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.”
“Ambition destroys its possessor.”
“Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power a little transient fame A grave to rest in and a fading name!”
“In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.”
“Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.”
“There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.”
“May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!”
“Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?”
“I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.”
