Quotes About Ambition

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply to be what is generally called "a success.

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Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can – as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. And not to simply be what is generally called a "success".

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

Hold on tight to your dream

I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

I realized she wanted many things at the same time, and that kept her in a permanent state of dissatisfaction.

When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.

I concluded that first of all I had to understand better what I was. Investigate my nature as a woman. I had been excessive, I had striven to give myself male capacities. I thought I had to know everything, be concerned with everything. What did I care about politics, about struggles. I wanted to make a good impression on men, be at their level. At the level of what, of their reason, most unreasonable.

Diventare. Era un verbo che mi aveva sempre ossessionata [...]. Io volevo diventare, anche se non avevo mai saputo cosa. Ed ero diventata, questo era certo, ma senza oggetto, senza una vera passione, senza un'ambizione determinata.

I gave a nervous laugh, then said, "Thanks, but at a certain point school is over." "Not for you: you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

From the first lines I began to feel bad. In Pisa, the bad feeling increased, over days, over months. Every word of Lila's diminished me. Every sentence, even sentences written when she was still a child, seemed to empty out mine, not the ones of that time but the ones now. And yet every page ignited my thoughts, my ideas, my pages as if until that moment I had lived in a studious but ineffectual stupor.

Would she always do the things I was supposed to do, before and better than me? She eluded me when I followed her and meanwhile stayed close on my heels in order to pass me by?

Ecco Lila festeggiata dal rione, sembrava felice. Sorrideva elegante, cortese, mano nella mano di suo marito. Era bellissima. Su di lei, sulla sua andatura, avevo puntato da piccola, per sfuggire a mia madre. Avevo sbagliato. Lila era rimasta lì, vincolata in modo lampante a quel mondo, dal quale s'immaginava di aver tratto il meglio.

Two more years: then I'll get my diploma and I'm done.' 'No, don't ever stop: I'll give you the money, you should keep studying.' I gave a nervous laugh, then said, 'Thanks, but at a certain point school is over.' 'Not for you: you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.' She got up, took off her underpants and bra, said, 'Come on, help me, otherwise I'll be late.

El sueño de progreso sin límites es, en realidad, una pesadilla llena de ferocidad y muerte.

he's no one. And for a person who is no one to become someone is more important than anything else.

I didn't know the map of prestige.

the dreams of the head ended up beneath the feet.