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• Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Giving, Made

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed.

  Eric Liddell

  Christian, Jesus, Challenges

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• The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

  Moliere

  Love, Dating, Romance

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• If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Achievement, Way, Imagine

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• I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Dies

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• To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Natural

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• America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Jesus, Selfish

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• Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.

  Chris Huhne

  Giving, Climate, Would Be

  "Defying climate deal like appeasing Hitler-UK minister" by Peter Griffiths, af.reuters.com. July 21, 2011.

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• The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Heart, Desire

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• If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to destroy your creativity. If you want fame, then forget about creativity. Fame comes easier if you are destructive.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Creativity, Creative

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• It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

  Marie Curie

  Determination, Desire, Should

  Marie Curie (1921). “The Discovery of Radium: Address by Madame M. Curie at Vassar College, May 14, 1921”

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• Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Kind, Fame, Pursue

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.3

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• You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Passion, Pride

  Song: Vienna

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• Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

  Martin Luther

  Captivity, Pope, Brethren

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.220

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• I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone out there, especially everyone who dares to dream.

  Jorja Fox

  Dream, Grateful, Wish

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• Ambition is priceless, its something that's in your veins.

  Wale

  Life, Veins, Priceless

  Song: Ambition, Album: Ambition, 2011

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• You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

  Winston Churchill

  Mouths, Lions, Performances

  Winston Churchill (2013). “London to Ladysmith & Ian Hamilton's March”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

  Winston Churchill

  Father, Office, Proud

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• It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambitious, Able, Path

  Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The Grand Alliance”

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• ... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

  Winston Churchill

  Exercise, Army, Thinking

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• I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

  Winston Churchill

  Play, Noble, Stakes

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• Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspiring, Achievement, One Day At A Time

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• Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

  Price Pritchett

  Moving, Goal, Optimism

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• When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition to achieve that goal!

  Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler

  Giving Up, Goal, Anticipation

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• There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Gratitude, Luxury, Envy

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