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Quotes About Ambition

Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .
~ Amy Johnson
Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
~ Unknown
I refused to take no for an answer.
~ Bessie Coleman
All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.
~ Faith Ringgold
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.
~ Amy Poehler
Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.
~ Mary Kay Ash
And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!
~ Barbara Bush
I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'
~ Marianne Williamson
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.
~ Oprah Winfrey
One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.
~ Richard DeVos
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
~ Willa Cather
Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.
~ Gertrude B. Elion
Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
~ Helen Clark
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.
~ Sarah Moore Grimke
Gotta be more than grabbing nines to buck tin in, gotta be more than just to lust women, gotta be more than platinum Rolexes.
~ Puff Daddy
India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
~ Moliere
There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.
~ Ronald Reagan
Women don't want to win, they want a winner.
~ Patrice O'Neal
First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
~ Matt Groening
Never forget to dream.
~ Madonna Ciccone
The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.
~ Brian Tracy
I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.
~ Ethel Smyth