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Ambition is an earnest desire for achievement.

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AMBITION

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Liz Murray grew up in the Bronx, New York City. Addicted to drugs, her parents sometimes sold household items in order to get their fix. As a child, Liz hated school because when she did go, she wa...

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Heroes

Ambition Hero: Carter

My Darling Son is My Hero A Poem to him, a soldier.... To live so boldly, to dare and overcome Daily dealings take a path that surprises...saddens Leaving God to make sense of the total sum To rise to necessity, giving yourself for us ... Read more

Ambition Hero: Glenn(10) & Kevin(7)

Glenn and Kevin are my little cousins and also two of my heroes. They stick by me and say what's on their minds. They do small things and I know they care. And I care about them. Everyone else thinks they are just two kids that I'll get bored o... Read more

Ambition Hero: Helen

Helen Keller gave me the courage to go on with my dream, even though people told me I couldn't she is my hero and my inspiration. Read more

Ambition Hero: Cameron

My son Cameron, now 13, was diagnosed with a rare brain cancer when he was 11. He has transformed his experience into an opportunity to help others. He is developing a magazine called Brain Candy! as a way to bridge young people living with brain ... Read more

Ambition Hero: Ethel

Ethel is my aunt by marriage; she is my husband's aunt. She has always treated me as someone special, and her kind and loving words have meant the world to me...Those words are what keep me going. I never have to do anything to hear her ki... Read more
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Personal Stories

On Ambition

It is an odd thing, to think you might have peaked in your life; to contemplate however briefly, that the very best, most productive years might be behind you. Odder still, is the acknowledgement that you simply do not operate from the same appeti... Read more

Ambition

I always told my children - if you never ask, they can't tell you anything. If you do ask, they just might tell you YES! Read more

I Can't

I was the quintessential "I can't" child - the poster child for the advancement of the word "can't." Whatever my mother told or asked me to do was immediately followed by my whining, "I caaaaan't." Consequently, very few tasks or goals that I s... Read more

Pushing Forward

Being in Hawaii, visiting my mom for the summer, I learned something from her that I took going into my senior year in high school which, helped me finish school strong. I would wake up to my mom in the mornings getting ready to go running, swimmi... Read more

Finally Graduating

Years of anticipating this time has finally arrived, there were times when I thought we would never get here. We are having three graduations in one family! My daughter is graduating from 4-year college in nursing, and my son is graduating from hi... Read more
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AMBITION

Quotes
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men.
Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President (1809-1865);
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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Lao Tzu Philosopher (600-531);
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I don't think about what I have done. I only think of the things I want to do, and I haven't done.
Martha Graham American Modern Dancer And Choreographer (1894-1991);
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President (1809-1865);
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Ambition beats genius 99 percent of the time.
Jay Leno Comedian, Televison Host (born 1950);
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Comments

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Diana S 28 days ago from 6078
Amazing!
Bruce Willingham 3 months ago from Warner Robins, Ga
Ambition is the desire and discipline to reach your destiny.
Omodu Jack-West Worlu 7 months ago from Garden City Magazine
Life is good, but you must take along the principles that governs it.