Quotes About Ambition

I want to say to all the young women out there, as I say to all young people: believe in yourselves, follow your passion and never give up, because you will create a future filled with possibility.

We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if more women were in power, I would feel more comfortable.

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

I have achieved a certain amount of success, and I felt a responsibility to my daughter and to women in this world to create more opportunities for women.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!