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Tag Name "Ambition" (1429)

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What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God.
J. Vernon McGee
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The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions
Michael Atherton
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Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.
Johnny Depp
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One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
Lawrence Welk
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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
Alva Myrdal
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If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.
Billy Corgan
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Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.
Timothy Keller
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Ambition has no rest.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good.
Marquis de Lafayette
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I'd like to add some beauty to life, said Anne dreamily. I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.
Emma Goldman
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We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
Walter Savage Landor
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Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.
Bob Lewis
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I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
Sade Adu
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A lot of people have the ambition, but they never ask themselves, Do I really believe I can do this?
Brendon Burchard
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Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
Bob Marley
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I never had any ambition to do anything commercial, anything journalistic. I wanted to be an artist, and I wanted to be an artist whose work was done in the medium of photography. It may be debatable to this day whether I ever succeeded in achieving that ambition, but the point is, I never had any uncertainty about that.
Lewis Baltz
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It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.
Gentry Lee
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Action often precedes the feeling.
Zig Ziglar
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Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.
John Constable
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I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.
Mukesh Ambani
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
Quintilian
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
Ayn Rand
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