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"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."	Herbert Kaufman
"The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness."	John Keats
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."	Helen Adams Keller
"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal."	Helen Adams Keller
"Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past."	Dean Koontz
"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out."	Michael Korda
"If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life; the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show; and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery."	Charles Krauthammer
"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."	Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die."	Michio Kushi
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked."	Walter Savage Landor
"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."	Abraham Lincoln
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve."	Sophia Loren
"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more."	Sir John Lubbock
"Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values."	Helen Merrell Lynd
"Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked."	Niccolo Machiavelli
"I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done. ... Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals, I lost my ethical compass."	Jeb Stuart Magruder
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."	Horace Mann
"Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire."	Orison Swett Marden
"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain."	André Maurois
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."	Charlie McCarthy
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Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba	Buonarroti Michelangelo	Charles Krauthammer
Charlie McCarthy	Claude Adrien Helvetius	Confucius
Daniel Patrick Moynihan	David Guterson	David Havard
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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