Quotes About Ambition

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

God knows (She knows) that women try.

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

I'm interested in playing lots of different complex women.

Women like signs of money and education - things that indicate that not only is this guy going to have some resources, but he's also willing to share them.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

Tens of thousands of men and women with kids to raise, bills to pay, and dreams that won't die. This is your campaign.

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially.

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.

I sometimes hear people say women don't want to direct studio films, but I do. I want to direct big films, little films, TV. I want to do it all.

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

All of my hopes and dreams lie with young women.

Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

Some women chasing men, and some - for dreams. If you are at a fork, remember, your career will not wake up one morning to say that more does not love you.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

'What's your favorite position?' 'CEO.'

If a woman is successful, she'd better duck, because they'll be out to get her.

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.

Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.