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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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Desire-Aspire-Perspire-Inspire but, don't Expire! ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ↗

— Stendhal

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way. ↗

— Ben Stiller

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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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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 Keller

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