"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

#Ambition Quotes #Use Quotes #Merit Quotes

“If you love something and stick with it, you will get phenomenal results.”
“The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.”
“Itâ€™s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?”
“Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.”
“I talk to people who go to rehab, and they get this AA book that they've got to read everyday - really thick book. They go through all these 12 steps and do all this and that. It's crazy how everybody can sit and talk about rehab but if I come to say Christ was my rehab, it's not cool to say that. ... For me that's my rehab. That's what happened with me and it's an amazing and powerful thing.”
“Look at my big teeth. I'm an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome”
“Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in history henceforth. He was an ambitious man who wanted to make an impact on history, and this is how he did it.”

Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.
“My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.”

Source : "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Laurie Metcalf". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. October 21, 2009.

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