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"Know what you want. Pursue what you need. Realize what you ought. Attain what you desire."
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"Simple dreams are the hardest to come true."

"My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living."

"No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail."

"When you are clear on your calling, you command the universe to submit to your voice."

"His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web."

"A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches."
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"Intelligence will teach you how to make a living, wisdom will teach you how to make a life."

"A diamond will never tell you how valuable it is; if you don't already know, you are not worthy of it."

"School is a hospital where people recover from ignorance, life is a hospital where people recuperate from arrogance."

"The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change."
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