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"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me."	William Adams
"You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."	William Adams
"In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric."	Maya Angelou
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."	Aristotle
"Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable."	Aristotle
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."	Aristotle
"All men by nature desire to know."	Aristotle
"I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victort is the victory over self."	Aristotle
"There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people."	Jan Ashford
"God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one: but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things."	Saint Augustine
"Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down."	Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"Men in Great Place are thrice Servants: Servants of the Sovereign or State; Servants of Fame; and Servants of Business … It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty."	Sir Francis Bacon
"If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks."	Sir Francis Bacon
"A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive."	Pearl Bailey
"Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire."	Honoré de Balzac
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."	Alexander Graham Bell
"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control."	Robert F. Bennett
"He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."	William Blake
"The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul."	Smiley Blanton
"Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable."	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky
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Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba	Buonarroti Michelangelo	Charles Krauthammer
Charlie McCarthy	Claude Adrien Helvetius	Confucius
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Dean Koontz	Dr. Samuel Johnson	Edmund Burke
Edward Dahlberg	Epictetus	Eric Butterworth
Eric Hoffer	Euripides	George Gordon Byron
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Gérard Depardieu	Hal
Helen Adams Keller	Helen Merrell Lynd	Henrik Ibsen
Herbert Kaufman	Honoré de Balzac	Horace Mann
H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky	H. Jackson Brown	Ilie Nastase
I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jan Ashford
Jean de La Fontaine	Jeb Stuart Magruder	Jiddu Krishnamurti
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Keats	Juvenal
Kahlil Gibran	Maria Montessori	Marie Curie
Marquis de Sade	Maya Angelou	Michael Korda
Michio Kushi	Mike Newlin	M. Shawn Covey
Napolean Bonaparte	Napolean Hill	Niccolo Machiavelli
Orison Swett Marden	Pearl Bailey	Phillips Brooks
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Rene Descartes	Robert Burton
Robert F. Bennett	Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole	Robert Lee Frost
Saint Augustine	Shakti Gawain	Sigmund Freud
Sir Francis Bacon	Sir John Lubbock	Smiley Blanton
Sophia Loren	Ted W. Engstrom	Terry Josephson
Tibetan Doctrine	Walter Elliott	Walter Savage Landor
William Blake	William Hazlitt	William Adams
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