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Quotes About Ambition

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.
~ Martha Wainwright
I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.
~ Mary MacLane
I want women to have all the opportunities that they aspire to.
~ Nancy Pelosi
Powerful women are the most interesting to play.
~ Naomie Harris
Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility that refuses to be extinguished.
~ Nathaniel Branden
I want to play interesting women.
~ Rachel Weisz
Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.
~ Richard LaGravenese
A call for women... To rise up what it really takes for the reward of financial freedom.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too."
~ Rosie O'Donnell
Women tend to very much, very much think of money as a means to an end, not as an end in itself.
~ Sallie Krawcheck
My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.
~ Sandra Cisneros
I want young women to think about different possibilities for their lives.
~ Sara Blecher
Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
I think a lot of women feel like they have to choose between making movies or making a family.
~ Sian Heder
Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.
~ Susan Estrich
I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.
~ Tommy Lee
It's not about women acting like man, it's about women acting like woman and being sucsessful
~ Zooey Deschanel
Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.
~ Horace
If a man would move the world he must first move himself.
~ Socrates
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Great women aren't born great, they become great.
~ Sabrina Newby
SHE Can. SHE Does. SHE Wins.
~ Stephanie Lahart
Women strive to be the change they want to see in the mirror.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land