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I take pleasure in an excellent work done. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power? — Thomas Higgons

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture. — Satya Nadella

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious. — Roman Payne

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. — Baruch Spinoza

If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved. — Jahangir Khan

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star. — Ally Sheedy

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition. — Hugh B. Brown

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame — John Adams

Dare to climb higher heights. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go. — Tim Fargo

The desire to reach hearts is wise — Maya Angelou

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones. — Laozi

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. — Ambrose Bierce

When a man is occupied with striving to satisfy his desire and ambition, all his thoughts must be mortal. — Timaeus

Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies. — Emily Dickinson

Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm. — A.G. Street

Your Heart's Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later. — Emmet Fox

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. — Maya Angelou

The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty. — Dave Checketts

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family. — Claire Denis

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for. — Habeeb Akande

Love, desire, ambition, faith. Without them life's so simple, believe me. — Daniel Mainwaring

Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped. — Suzy Kassem

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive. — Berthe Morisot

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world. — Anthony Liccione

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician. — Tupac Shakur

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character. — Morihei Ueshiba

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires. — Thomas Carlyle

At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today. — Noel DeJesus

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God. — Bill Wilson

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice. — Aristotle.

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work. — Charles Babbage

Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage. — Rajneesh

To want is more than to attain. — Georgiana Goddard King

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep. — Ovid

To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death. — Cynthia Ozick

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. — Liam Neeson

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded. — Horace

Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs. — Habeeb Akande

Dream. Desire. Dare. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste. — Jean Patou