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• Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pride, Envy, Enemy

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• Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Truth, Joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.932, Library of Alexandria

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• Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Needs

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• I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

  Lee Atwater

  Country, Eye, Dimes

  Life Interview, January 1991.

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• The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

  Donald Miller

  Stories

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.124, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

  Ben Elton

  Thinking, Trying, Worst

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• Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Evil, Way, Spirit

  Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

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• Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

  Jack Kornfield

  Regret, War, Past

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• Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart

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• Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

  Napoleon Hill

  Doe, Way, Destruction

  Napoleon Hill, Steve Berges (2010). “Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition”, p.185, American Liberty Press

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• Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.

  Bela Lugosi

  Character, Roles, Actors

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.

  Royal Robbins

  Thinking, Climbing, Goal

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• It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

  Thomas Keneally

  Art, Abandon

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• Perhaps the most reliable route to meaning and joy, to plunging below the surface and seeking more than the superficiality of material ambition, is connection with people, places, ideas and issues. Of these, the most important are people and relationships. And the most reliable route to relationships is conversation.

  Michael Short

  Communication, Media, Ideas

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• The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Dream, People, Secret

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• I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Beautiful, Mean, Ties

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• Take ones adversity
  Learn from their misfortune
  Learn from their pain
  Believe in something
  Believe in yourself
  Turn adversity into ambition
  Now blossom into wealth

  Tupac Shakur

  Pain, Believe, Adversity

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• To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There, one is truly without a name, without ambition, without help; on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Writing, Blood, Names

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• There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

  John Stott

  Inappropriate, Cherish

  John Stott (2000). “Sermon on the Mount”, p.74, InterVarsity Press

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• October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

  Thomas Merton

  August, Blood, Land

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you try to keep your most sacred ambitions off of your weekly calendar and your most genuine traits off of your resume, then you're missing out on the power of real integrity.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Integrity, Real, Missing

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• Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

  Alan Cohen

  Feel Good, Recognition, Feels

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Never allow anyone to take YOUR spirit away from you.

  Khloe Kardashian

  People, Trying, Spirit

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• Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.

  Cory Booker

  Dream, Simple, Small Moments

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Jan 07, 2013

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• Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.

  Arianna Huffington

  Careers, Matter, Code

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