Quotes About Ambition

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.

I want to see the world and do all kinds of exciting things, and a little money won't hurt.

But I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take it too seriously.

And keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, if... there weren't any other people living in the world.

I know I'm far from being what I should; will I ever be?

If God lets me live, I'll achieve more than Mother ever did, I'll make my voice heard, I'll go out into the world and work for mankind!

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind! And now I know that first and foremost I shall require courage and cheerfulness!

I've made up my mind to lead a different life from other girls, and not to become an ordinary housewife later on.

I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to!

I finally realized that I must do my schoolwork to keep from being ignorant, to get on in life, to become a journalist, because that's what I want! I know I can write.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be;

keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be

In one Way or another, the day would come when my name would be a household word and my picture would occupy a place of honour in the memory book of every damp-eyed film fan

Don't be modest and retiring, Anne. It will get you nowhere.

Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.

But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are Spirit, you are love, and even though it is hard to believe sometimes, you are free. You're here to love, and be loved, freely. If you find out next week that you are terminally ill - and we're all terminally ill on this bus - what will matter are memories of beauty, that people loved you, and that you loved them.

I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.

They kind of want to write, but they really want to be published. You'll never get to where you want to be that way, I tell them.

This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.

I've managed to get some work done nearly every day of my adult life, without impressive financial success.

I've managed to get some work done nearly every day of my adult life, without impressive financial success. Yet I would do it all over again in a hot second, mistakes and doldrums and breakdowns and all. Sometimes I could not tell you exactly why, especially when it feels pointless and pitiful, like Sisyphus with cash-flow problems.

You may feel a little as if writing a novel is like trying to level Mount McKinley with a dentist's drill.

Has been done. Can be done. Must be done...