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. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

—Pearl Bailey

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Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress, singer, comedian and author. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She received a Special Tony Award for the title role in the all-Black production of Hello, Dolly!...

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People see God every day; they just don't recognize him.

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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

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He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

—Niccolo Machiavelli

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Dreams, goals, ambitions—these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

—Joseph Conrad

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

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