Quotes About Ambition

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.

Madam Walker was an incredible woman, but she wasn't the only one of her time who was. She just took it to the highest height.

My first day in the police was July 16, 1972. I was the only woman in the IPS. I remember getting a lot of questions. Are you sure you want to do this? Have you thought about your family? Why did you choose to be here? There was a lot of amazement and doubt.

My mother was a businesswoman; my grandmother was a businesswoman - it never occurred to me that life might be harder because you're a woman. It wasn't until later and I had a bigger sense of the world that I realised that.

Maybe someday we'll have a woman president. Not me, though.

I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

So many women have had to make these sacrifices - putting off having kids, letting their husbands down - for some career opportunity. Mine just happened to be covering the woman trying to become the first woman president.

We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.

Women need to be less squeamish about making money.

Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.

Success doesn't come overnight, especially for women.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

Some women can probably be Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, but some of us can't.

What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.

When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.'

It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

I'm paving the road for other women and men who know they're destined for greatness, but they don't believe it yet.

In a world where women and men are advised to 'lean in,' run faster and reach higher, Arianna Huffington has courageously redefined the meaning of success.

Women are no longer just born to be married. We are here to compete with everyone and make a place for ourselves under the sun on our own.

The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.