Quotes About Ambition

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

Lady Jane Gray, who tho' inferior to her lovely Cousin the Queen of Scots, was yet an amiable young woman & famous for reading Greek while other people were hunting....Whether she really understood that language or whether such a study proceeded only from an excess of vanity for which I beleive she was always rather remarkable, is uncertain.

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved.

no hay que desesperar de lograr aquello que deseamos, pues la asiduidad, si es constante, consigue el fin que se propone...

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

does not confine herself to that sort of honest flirtation which satisfies most people, but aspires to the more delicious gratification of making a whole family miserable.

To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost everything that could make it a blessing.

We are told to despair of nothing we would attain, as unwearied diligence our point would gain

No cold prudence for me. I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it. The

Why she did not like Jane Fairfax might be a difficult question to answer; Mr. Knightley had once told her it was because she saw in her the really accomplished young woman, which she wanted to be thought herself; and though the accusation had been eagerly refuted at the time, there were moments of self-examination in which her conscience could not quite acquit her.

Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

Mary, who having, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments, was always impatient for display.

only Miss Mainwaring; who, coming to town, and putting herself to an expense in clothes which impoverished her for two years, on purpose to secure him, was defrauded of her due by a woman ten years older than herself.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive;

Ah, kendi kederleri olmayanlar için ne kadar kolay gayret et demesi!

Those who chose to be idle, certainly might.

If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy, cried a young Lucas, who came with his sisters, I should not care how proud I was. I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine a day.

Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it.

Catherine's motto could well have been that genius is a long patience. With the successive reigns of her sons came her chance to show the world how they had underestimated this disregarded queen. What Catherine lacked in beauty she made up for in intelligence, cunning and family ambition.

Sometimes the thing that you wanted to do did make you sigh, just because it was a hard thing to do.

said, looking for a job on Broadway.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.