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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.

— Jessye Norman

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

— Natalie Massenet

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

— Eric Idle

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

— Maynard Webb

If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.

— Liang Chow

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

— Lily Cole

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

— Bill Bradley

I think ambition can be having something that you're good at and love to do.

— Hilary Duff

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

— Lauren Conrad

✗Opposing Perspectives

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

— Juliana Hatfield

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow