Quotes About Ambition

I think luck is a big part of people who are successful in L.A.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

The most out-there thing I'm saying is, 'Don't have babies. Don't get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

Remember it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.

I grew up in this medical atmosphere, and thought I wanted to be a doctor. I was a hippie, didn't have a lot of goals.

To be that man, you've got to beat the man. Woooo!

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

Young man, make your name worth something.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.