"I'm either going to be a writer or a bum."

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"Why settle for a lesser vision? When you are destiny for greatness!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Having this, we want that.Owning some, we want more.Standing here, we wish to be there.If it's impossible, we struggle to make it happen.Why are we like this? Why not be content with some, here, and now? Why is enough not enough? Because humans are ambitious creatures not meant to be idle or fruitless. We strive to learn, to grow, to achieve, to amass; therefore, we will never be content."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Perfection may be an island out of reach, but setting your sails toward it makes for a magnificent voyage."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Win the dreams. Period."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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"Those who reach for the Sun, usually drop the world."

Lionel Suggs, American Writer

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"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."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."

Anger

"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."

Friendship

"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help."

Time

"Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence."

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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

Books

"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."

Solitude

"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."

Life

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

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"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."

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"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."

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