"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."

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"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."

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"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Ambition, Persistence, Fun, Dream, Drive

"Set goals to create a clear sense of purpose and direction."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"Increase must become your natural desire."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ambition, Increase, Desire, Growth

"Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom."

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Ambition, Kingdom, Dreams, Focus

"All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness as something that you cannot afford not to have."

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Ambition, Greatness, Desire, Need, Value

"Discipline is needed in our pursuit."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ambition, Discipline, Pursuit, Determination, Goals

"A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person's imagination."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ambition, Dream, Reality, Future, Imagination

"You can touch the moon if you really want to do it."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Ambition, Dreams, Achievement, Desire

"A job should only be a stepping stone to being your own boss."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ambition, Job, SteppingStone, Boss, Independence

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."

Barack Obama, American President

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"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."

"Set goals to create a clear sense of purpose and direction."

"Increase must become your natural desire."

"Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom."

"All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness as something that you cannot afford not to have."

"Discipline is needed in our pursuit."

"A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person's imagination."

"You can touch the moon if you really want to do it."

"A job should only be a stepping stone to being your own boss."

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."

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"Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture."

"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."

"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."

"Verse satire indeed is entirely our own."

"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort."

"As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone."