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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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• It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

  Joseph Story

  Spiritual, Pride, Government

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.702

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• Dont just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions.

  Roger Milla

  Pride, Play, Shows

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• Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.

  Robert Langlands

  World, Mathematics, Indifferent

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• Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls

  Taylor Caldwell

  Fire, Soul, Obscurity

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• Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition

  Julian Baggini

  Real, Atheism, Succeed

  Julian Baggini (2003). “Atheism: A Very Short Introduction”, p.111, Oxford University Press

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• Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under such prayer and fervor, however, are ambition, a craving for fame, the desire to be considered a spiritual giant. The person who prays such a prayer may not even know it, but dark motives and desires are in his heartin your heart.

  Gene Edwards

  Spiritual, Prayer, Powerful

  Gene Edwards (2016). “The Gene Edwards Collection: A Tale of Three Kings / The Prisoner in the Third Cell / The Divine Romance”, p.40, NavPress

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• To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

  Norman O. Brown

  Ghost, Remembered

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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• I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Father, Believe

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• I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

  Taiye Selasi

  Writing, Eight, Four

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• I don't think ambition was ever my strong suit. I always wanted to be successful, because you want to be good at what you do, but I've definitely always enjoyed playing a supporting part. I really enjoy the success of others.

  Selma Blair

  Strong, Successful, Thinking

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• All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

  Park Geun-hye

  Party, Groups, Facts

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• Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Retiring, My Ambition

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• I am still full of ambition.

  Jan Timman

  Stills

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• I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

  Meg Tilly

  Agents, Television

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• Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called "mountaintop employments of great value," we spend our time in digging a pit and then falling therein, so that our temporary joy may become a permanent and bitter loss.

  Sterling W Sill

  Time, Fall, Loss

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• Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Thug, Desire

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• To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Rainbow, Trying

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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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• The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

  Moliere

  Love, Dating, Romance

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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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