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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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First Lady
Born:
Oct 11
,
1884
Died:
Nov 7
,
1962
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
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Strength
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Suffering
Experience
Ambition
Trial
Ease
Only
Inspired
Through
Developed
Quiet
Achieved
Cannot
Strengthened
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
Intelligence
Bird
Ambition
Wings
Without
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Cesar Chavez
Needs
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Progress
Prosperity
Ambition
Own
Community
Enough
Others
Broad
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Our Community
We Cannot
Ourselves
Must
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About
Forget
Cannot
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary
Women
Men
Ambition
Seek
Equal
Lack
Who
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Good
Gardening
Garden
Plants
Thrive
Ambition
Patient
Good Intentions
Someone
Attention
Merely
Because
Labor
Effort
Intentions
Them
Fulfill
Requires
Grow
Satisfy
Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.
Robin S. Sharma
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Respect
People
Ambition
Warrior
Outright
Delivering
Generosity
Saint
Up
Modeling
Your
Showing
Showing Up
Treating
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius
Great
Man
Worth
Ambition
Greater
His
Than
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.
Charles Spurgeon
Man
Peace
Revenge
Pride
Thought
Contentment
Ambition
Lust
Too
Humility
Exalted
Unworthy
Idolatry
Gods
Often
While
Holiness
Viewed
Serious
Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.
Heinrich Rohrer
Today
Faith
Science
Experience
Creativity
Arrogance
Passion
Old
Tomorrow
Ambition
Conviction
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New
Openness
Bias
Blind
Blind Faith
Tightrope
Walking
Curiosity
Short
Expertise
Epiphany
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Good
Great
Character
Passion
Ambition
Those
Bad
Direct
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Principles
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Depends
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